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This is an archive article published on May 17, 2007

Ball colour, shrinking fields up for discussion

The discolouring of the white ball in one-day matches and the shrinking size of playing fields will be two of many issues discussed by the newly-constituted ICC cricket committee

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The discolouring of the white ball in one-day matches and the shrinking size of playing fields will be two of many issues discussed by the newly-constituted ICC cricket committee, which meets in Dubai later this month, former Australian captain Mark Taylor has said.

“They (the ICC) want people who see it from different points of view. One thing we’re all trying to get right is the white ball in one-day cricket,” Taylor said. “There has already been quite a bit of chat in cricket circles about that. Whether we should use a new ball from each end or change the ball at a given time during the innings just to make it easier for people to see.”

Taylor also wondered whether boundaries that had been brought in over recent years to standardise playing fields and offer players a safety zone between the rope and the fence had swung the game too heavily in favour of batsmen. ICC standards for boundaries during one-day matches are playing arenas of 110 metres long and 130 metres wide.

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