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Lucknow. First time, the pink ball will be used in the media cricket when hosts Lucknow take on Kanpur in the opening match of the All India Media Premier League, starting Friday, at the Guru Gobind Singh Sports College here in Lucknow.
Lucknow journalists are organizing the media league since 1995 and in this edition, the journalists from Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi are participating. Lucknow’s district magistrate, Abhishek Prakash would inaugurate the event at 9.30 a.m. on Friday.
“It’s a historic moment for the media cricket. It’s for the first time that an All-India level media tournament will be played with a pink ball,” says organising secretary Gulshan Dwivedi. “We will be following all the COVID protocols during the tournament as the event is being played under secured bio bubble.”
The event is being sponsored by the Indian Oil, Green Gas Limited and Radico Khaitan. In November, 2019, during India’s first day-night Test match (against Bangladesh) held at Eden Gardens in Kolkata was played with the pink ball, and to mark the historic moment, the entire city was decked up in pink.
The pink-ball is used in day-night Test matches as it has better visibility during the night as compared to the red balls, usually used for Test matches.
The red balls, under yellow floodlights, take a brownish colour which is similar to the colour of the pitch. The pink ball is glossy and shiny in contrast to the matte finish of the red ball.
