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Yes

14 (58.3%)

No

7 (29.2%)

Not bothered

3 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 24

[stevie_94_]

With the MCC seeming to be pushing for day night games what do people think about them?

[Buzz]

It is an interesting question - I am not sure you can have them/need to have them in the UK - because of the current popularity of test matches and the fact that playing in the even in the uk doesn't really work.

However in India they love the day night stuff, so it may work in the sub continent. I have no idea about Aus and NZ. It might work in the Carribean too...

[tim2000s]

I think a couple of better questions are:
1. At grounds equipped with flood lights, should bad light be allowed to stop play?
2. If there is light drizzle, that most club teams would play through at weekends, should international cricket stop?

[mdl_1979]

It couldn't/wouldn't work here.  I could see them working in the Caribbean where dew generally is not an issue.  Likewise in some venues on the subcontinent and/or Aus and NZ.  I'm not sure I would want to see it though.  Would it really feel like a Test match if the floodlights were the only light, and a pink ball was being used?

[roco]

I don't think it will work but something needs to be tried as test match audiences are dwindling all over the world

Big problem for me though is that the pink ball is a kookabura!!!!!!!!!

[tim2000s]

I don't think it will work but something needs to be tried as test match audiences are dwindling all over the world

Big problem for me though is that the pink ball is a kookabura!!!!!!!!!

I suspect that Dukes would make a pink ball if it was required...

[roco]

I hope so as the kook seems to encourage batting rather than bowling as has no seam

[tim2000s]

True, but at least a couple of our bowlers can use it...

[Buzz]

Tiflex also make a pink ball (its a real bat breaker apparently) http://www.tiflex.co.uk/oxbridge/oxbridge.html

[langer17]

Duke's are the worst ball I have ever played with. Played a T-20 game over here last year and the oppostition used one. It was was hard as a bloody rock and felt terrible coming off the bat. But that's just my personal opinion and seeing as we are supposed to use Kookaburra's, I was probably just surprised more than anything. I'm sure that I could get used to it, but atm I dislike the ball with a passion, lol.

[Lekka Global Alliance]

Current popularity Buzz ? Cardiff was a ghost town. I wonder who objects to the Pink ball ? (the pink ball has been on the table, tried and tested for some years now but some in the sub cont must have objections).

[tim2000s]

Dukes are the best balls ever. As a bowler, they seam like crazy and make the batsman's life hell for the first 15 overs, unlike those soft Kooks with no seam.

According to Hoggard, the Tiflex swings loads more than the Kook or Dukes.

[Buzz]

Current popularity Buzz ? Cardiff was a ghost town. I wonder who objects to the Pink ball ? (the pink ball has been on the table, tried and tested for some years now but some in the sub cont must have objections).

That is the ECB's fault for scheduling a game somewhere where it is always really cold wet and misrerable (and in wales..) the Lords game has been largley well atended, the India games will all be sell outs, the Aus games were sell outs and the matches against other teams usually do well, when not scheduled in building sites (as happened last year) So yes they are well attended in the England.

[Lekka Global Alliance]

Duke's are the worst ball I have ever played with. Played a T-20 game over here last year and the oppostition used one. It was was hard as a bloody rock and felt terrible coming off the bat. But that's just my personal opinion and seeing as we are supposed to use Kookaburra's, I was probably just surprised more than anything. I'm sure that I could get used to it, but atm I dislike the ball with a passion, lol.

Amazing how it is always bats people that complain about the ball !!!

[Lekka Global Alliance]

That is the ECB's fault for scheduling a game somewhere where it is always really cold wet and misrerable (and in wales..) the Lords game has been largley well atended, the India games will all be sell outs, the Aus games were sell outs and the matches against other teams usually do well, when not scheduled in building sites (as happened last year) So yes they are well attended in the England.

Buzz, the UK is wet , cold and miserable at the best of times so that does not wash. Looks like the ECB are trying to spread the game like they did some years ago when Durham became a 1st class ground and county team.