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Pink Cricket Balls May Be Visually Challenging at Sunset

Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports, followed by hundreds of millions of people. It can be dangerous, played with a hard ball flying at great velocities, and accidents have occasionally been fatal. Traditionally, cricket has been played during the day, using a dark red ball. Since the...

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Autores principales: Adie, Joshua M., Arnold, Derek H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28203351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669516687049
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Sumario:Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports, followed by hundreds of millions of people. It can be dangerous, played with a hard ball flying at great velocities, and accidents have occasionally been fatal. Traditionally, cricket has been played during the day, using a dark red ball. Since the late 1970s, a shorter form of one-day cricket has been played both during the day and at night under floodlights. To overcome visibility issues, one-day cricket uses a white ball, and players wear coloured clothing. There is now a desire to play a traditional form of cricket during the day and at night, using a ‘pink’ ball while players wear white clothing. Concerns regarding visibility, and player and umpire safety, have been raised in this context. Here, we report that these concerns have a sound basis.