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[justnotcricket86]

Miss-field to get to 200.

Kind of sums it up really. I grew up watching Windies cricket in the early 90's and up to the Noughties. This is just bloody tragic

[Biggie Smalls]

Fun fact, there is an Island named after a pirate ancestor of mine I could try and get in with  (first land sighted by Columbus if you want to guess  )

Watling Island .

[csnew]

How many can cook get? 300? 400?
Surely the best chance to break a few records...

[felix]

Athers was one of my most admired openers for England, you could well argue his average would be 5-10 more in today's era

Anyone who stands up to pattrick Patterson on a glass top in Jamaica can only be revered

Same tour that one goochie had his hand broken

Simply frightening fast bowling

Patterson made his most dramatic impact on the 85/86 blackwash tour. There's a really good, quite evocative, article on the guardian website about the 1st test at Jamaica, "the scariest test England ever played", with reflections from many of the England protagonists. Goochie said it was the only time he was ever frightened - they reckoned the pitch was actually worse than the one for the infamous abandoned Sabina test in 97/98. I'd post a link if I could but it's not hard to find and well worth a read.

[InternalTraining]

That pink ball is swinging!

[InternalTraining]

Nice to see a MIDS bat in the middle.

[Biggie Smalls]

has anyone ever seen Roston Chase and Dave Chappelle in the same room ?
.....perhaps @rickjames ?

[Whispering Death]

Anyone watching Sussex Essex, Evans' 'Adidas' bat is absolutely massive!!!!!

[rickjames]

So yeah, even under lights the ball was incredibly hard to pick up. Interested to see how other people fared, from my angle I was just watching blokes having an invisabke swing at anything

[ppccopener]

Some of the commentators on BBC not picking it up either

Innovation and getting maybe a new audience to watch is great idea.

Personally I think night cricket is better with black screen and a white ball,coloured clothing obviously too

So that would mean 20/20 most,y evening games because not everyone wants to spend a whole day watching a test match.

Hopefully there 3 forms of cricket still going forward to cater for all. The one day cup seemed to have decent crowds this year.

[alexhilly1492]

So yeah, even under lights the ball was incredibly hard to pick up. Interested to see how other people fared, from my angle I was just watching blokes having an invisabke swing at anything

I was in block 28 in the hollies stand band thought it was ok and could see it fine all round the ground

[rickjames]

Around the ground was fine, but release point for me in the Barnes Upper was seriously difficult

[alexhilly1492]

I found it ok, I wonder if being more side on helped though, would be interesting to sit more behind the bowlers arm and see

[Biggie Smalls]

This is interesting hearing peoples difficulty picking up the pink ball, spectators at the ground , commentators , tv viewers , the lot .
As much as i hate kook balls , in oz during the pink tests the overwhelming majority of people ive spoken to who have been to the ground , tv viewers etc , all found the pink kook ball a delight re picking it up /seeing it easily .
Either dukes ball has some ways to go , colour improvement wise , or something to do with English conditions makes it more difficult to see ( twilight for so much longer perhaps ?) , or a combination of the two .

[Sam]

I don't know if my eyes have adjusted or if sky did something but I only had issues picking it up in the first session of the game and dont have any issues now.