Day 64: ...cricket, but not as we know it.
Today was a little different. After a meeting in the city (an ongoing politics-related project) and some work in the afternoon, I made a spur of the moment decision to go to the Gabba, our cricket oval to watch a cricket experiment in the making.
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| Night cricket |
The Sheffield Shield (the state-based series) is toying with playing day-night matches (for a four day game) and to do so, they are experimenting with a 'pink' cricket ball with a view to making tests day-night matches as well (draws deep breath...lets out slowly...).
The crowd wasn't...huge, nor in the thousands...one hundred or so, perhaps, not counting all the ground staff and team people. Admission was free. But it was an interested and appreciative crowd. Scarily, I got to watch young Alister McDermott bowl; I watched his father bowl at this same ground for a number of years, some years ago.
In the end, I suspect the team batting in the evening will not recommend it highly. Western Australia lost five wickets, under lights, in pretty quick succession, 5-73 at stumps, needing over 300 to win.
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| There's a pink ball there, somewhere... |
We were surveyed too. An interesting initiative, and as nice as it was to get along to a proper cricket match in the the middle of the week, in the evening, I don't think the pink ball quite cuts it, yet.
So today's pics are a little different from the norm, but we may have captured a one-off moment in time...
[Camera : Canon EOS60D, 28-80mm (very strict rules on nothing longer than 200mm allowed in the grounds), 6.23pm, 6.18pm]
