The Ashes use a pink ball for day-night Test matches to improve visibility under floodlights. The colour is suitable for play during the day and night. Day-night Tests, which is the only time a pink ...

In Brisbane on Thursday, Test cricket will change colour. A day-night game means that, for the 25 th time, a Test match will be played with a pink ball. England’s hopes of regaining the Ashes rest on ...

Three colours are used for cricket balls in different formats - red, white, and pink. The difference in colour is down to visibility. The traditional red ball remains used for Test matches as they ...

England plan to block pink-ball, day-night Tests in future Ashes tours, telling Cricket Australia they believe the series ...

Day-night Test cricket has altered the way in which the longest format is approached. The pink ball, the lights, the fast-moving evenings, and the capricious conditions have created a new kind of Test ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Batting collapses are a routine affair in pink-ball tests and the trend will continue until batsmen get used to the novelty, India's spin spearhead Ravichandran Ashwin ...

Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Harry Brook digest defeat in Perth Philip Brown/Getty Images England have opted against handing their first-choice top-order batters match practice against a pink ball in a ...

BJ Watling gave a positive update after New Zealand trained with a pink ball for the first time, ahead of cricket's maiden day/night Test next month. The Black Caps will take on Australia in Adelaide ...

It’s the pink ball protest which could leave match organisers feeling blue. A Code Sports survey of more than 2000 fans has revealed 84 per cent would rather the 150th Anniversary Test between ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A pink cricket ball made its competitive debut in England on Wednesday when Hampshire beat Essex in a floodlit Twenty20 fixture. The match, staged at Hampshire's Rose Bowl, was the ...