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Hawks test out PINK cricket ball
THE Hampshire Hawks will use a PINK cricket ball when they play the Essex Eagles in tonight's Twenty20 Floodlit Challenge at the Rose Bowl.
At the beginning of the season, the pink Kookaburra ball was successful trialled during a match between an MCC XI and Scotland at Lord's.
And at the Rose Bowl tonight it will be used for the first time under floodlights as cricket's authorities try to find a more visible alternative to the white ball, which can be hard to see in certain conditions.
MCC head of cricket John Stephenson, the former Hampshire captain, explained: "Paint tends to flake off white balls. The challenge is to produce a ball which retains its colour and lasts the course.
"Kookaburra presented me with a luminous pink ball and I thought it had potential. My aim would be to use it in Twenty20 cricket in 2009 and thereafter in one-day international cricket.
"But this will be dependent on the trials and what the England and Wales Cricket Board ECB thinks at the end of the year."
Full story in today's Daily Echo
6:30am Wednesday 3rd September 2008
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