Posted by This is the conclusion we drew from last week’s round of pink ball County Championship fixtures. Only one of four matches in the first division ended in a result – and even that one saw only 23 wickets fall.
Despite the experiment only resulting in the confounding situation where Essex are even more top, we’d like to see a lot more day-night cricket.
Clearly, that’s because of this kind of thing.
We believe this constitutes an unarguable case.
In other strange cricketing ‘innovations’ – Jos Buttler and Alex Hales will be playing baseball (sort of) in London on Tuesday, the former on behalf of the mighty Boston Red Sox, and the latter for a team representing the LA Dodgers.
My review of witnessing pink ball cricket (and more besides) is now up:
http://ianlouisharris.com/2017/06/28/an-exploratory-mission-into-deepest-darkest-essex-prested-hall-and-chelmsford-27-28-june-2017/
I agree with KC – more of this please.
Speaking of Ballance, I could hardly have been more delighted to see him back in the frame for selection. Now England need to pick Rory Burns and the alphabet-straddling AZ Lees, bring back Jos Buttler as wicketkeeper, and have a bowling attack of Jake Ball, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood and Mason Crane, and my dream will have come true.
Gosh, your dreams have a very specific selection policy, Dan M.
Respect.
It doesn’t have to be those specific players. 107 people have played first-class cricket in England this year who would fit. Those are just the most likely candidates, unless Ian Bell gets recalled.
I have to say, I was much happier with the England lineup when it contained names like Trott, Prior, Swann, Bell and Finn.