5 takeaways from Pink ball cricket in India

#5 Change in colour and dew factor

Dew will be a massive factor

Cricket will always have to dodge weather conditions, but then when we are going into a match knowing that the weather will play tricks, nothing much can be done.

If matches are being played under lights, especially in regions which experience dew, the balance between bat and ball is thrown out of the window.

Also, players have claimed that the ball changes colour much too quickly and the change is rather drastic.

"There is conventional swing but the shine is maintained so well that there is no chance of reverse swing. I also found the colour varying at different times of the day. At one point, it looked light pink, followed by orange at one point of time, before appearing bright pink under lights", Robin Uthappa said after his match for India Green in the ongoing Duleep Trophy.

The ball, as they say, is firmly in the court of the administrators, almost literally!