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Return of The Pink Panther

Return of The Pink Panther

GH on Starc's favourite toy

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Gideon Haigh
Dec 06, 2024
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When night Test cricket first came to Adelaide, Mitchell Starc was one of the most outspoken pink ball agnostics. ‘It definitely reacts very, very differently to the red ball,’ he kvetched. ‘Whether you have to start a whole new set of stats for the pink ball as you do with the red and white ball, it throws up a huge number of questions and theories about where the game is going.’

Night Tests, in fact, have not taken the world by storm, or even stealth. But Starc has become the best possible argument for that whole new set of stats.

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