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Sri Lanka set for pink ball debut
- Updated: October 3, 2016
Pink ball cricket will mark its debut in Sri Lanka when the first unofficial test between Sri Lanka ‘A’ and West Indies ‘A’ commences at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday.
“We have been lagging behind other countries in experimenting with the pink ball, but a start had to be made somewhere,” said K Mathivanan, vice-president of Sri Lanka Cricket. “With the ICC planning to introduce day-night Test cricket in the near future we should be prepared to face the changes and not lag behind.”
Sri Lanka currently use the Australian Kookaburra ball in their domestic tournaments. Mathivanan said the pink ball costed as much as the red ball, priced at LKR 16,000. SLC is also likely to use the pink ball in their forthcoming domestic competition.
Sri Lanka A captain Dimuth Karunaratne felt …
