The furore over the South
Africa captain's ball-shining techniques came to a head on Tuesday when he was
found guilty of altering the condition of the ball by the International Cricket
Council (ICC). .. .. what would be the
reaction ?
Australian attitude !! : Faf said he felt he did nothing wrong and "wasn't
trying to hide it", but that is where the problem arose, according
to Dirk Nannes. Speaking on Grandstand
radio, Nannes said every team he had ever played on did a similar thing, but
the players were simply smarter about not rubbing it in the face of the
officials. Inflaming the situation, Hashim Amla then fronted a press conference
with the team standing defiantly behind him, security chief Zunaid Wadee got
physical with reporters and du Plessis said the ICC made him a
"scapegoat". The reaction, which also saw du Plessis and Cricket
South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat call for more consistency and
clarity in the laws of the game, was "wildly inappropriate" according
to Nannes.
In the days when
Australia's cricket team were all-conquering, Adam Gilchrist was frequently
referred to as the side's allrounder, for his batting carried that kind of
weight. On his recall to the national side in far grimmer times, Matthew Wade's
allround responsibilities appear to be threefold: batting, wicketkeeping and
"presence". While Wade insists that his glove work has gone up a
notch or three since he was dropped for Brad Haddin ahead of the 2013 Ashes
series, ending a run of 12 Tests behind the stumps, he also acknowledged his
role around the team will be much more multifaceted than simply adding to his
tally of dismissals. Wade made his test
debut in Apr 2012 and played the last of his dozen tests at Delhi in Mar
2013.
Coming back
from wilderness, he has had a good opening day at Adelaide in Test no. 2236 –
as South Africans slid to 259/9 decl. Wade held 5 catches. Du Plessis was unbeaten
on 118 when he declared ! – yes declaration.
Faf du Plessis declared South Africa's innings at the Adelaide Oval with
only 259 runs on the board - their second-lowest total on which they have
declared in the first innings of a Test.
And it had its impact too
~ Australia admitted they were sent into a lather by Faf du Plessis' crafty
declaration on the first evening of the Adelaide Test, a call that left Steven
Smith and Usman Khawaja fuming as David Warner was unable to take his usual
spot as an opener after spending time off the field. Warner complained of
shoulder pain and went for treatment late in South Africa's innings, but upon
overhearing that the opener needed to spend a further six minutes on the field,
du Plessis closed his innings. They could not get an early break through
though, as Renshaw and Khawaja saw through.
There are 4 debutants : PSP
Handscomb, NJ Maddinson and MT Renshaw (Australia); T Shamsi (South Africa)
Colour is
simply light of different wavelengths and frequencies and light is just one
form of energy that we can actually see that is made up from photons. Colour,
is the physical phenomenon of light or visual perception associated with the
various wavelengths in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. As
a sensation experienced by humans and some animals, perception of colour is a
complex neurophysiological process. In science the primary colours are red,
green and blue. This makes sense as it can be proved with a ray box. However,
in art the primary colours are said to be blue, red and yellow and red which is
believable as with these colours all other colours can be obtained. The retinas in our eyes though have three
types of colour receptors in the form of cones. We can actually only detect
three of these visible colours - red - blue and green. These colours are called
additive primaries. It is these three colours that are mixed in our brain to
create all of the other colours we see... We can see seven main colours of the
Visible Spectrum.
A sightscreen is used in
cricket so that when the bowler delivers the ball, the batsman can see it
clearly against the background. It also prevents any major distractions from
occurring in that direction as the batsman is focusing on the ball. Now a days Cricket is a different
ball-game - traditional red (Cherry);
White (in ODIs) and now pink, to be precise, fluorescent pink at that.
The come-back man has a
serious trouble. Australian
wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade, suffers from colour blindness. He however insists that he will cope with it
in the day-night Test against
SouthAfrica being played in Adelaide with the pink ball under lights. Wade has
been recalled for the third and the final Test against the Proteas in place of
Peter Nevill with Australia being desperate to evade a first-ever clean-sweep
on home soil after humiliating defeats in Perth and Hobart. The Victorian
gloveman, who was removed from the Test team three years ago due to due to
shoddy glovework, has admitted that his vision problem makes it difficult for
him to play with the pink ball under lights, but expressed confidence of
adapting with it.
"I think it's trying
to get it out of your mind. I can see the colour of the ball, I pick it up.
It's just at times it takes a little bit longer to work out the depth of where
it's coming. It can't be an issue, I've got to work it out," he added. The
28-year-old further said that he now finds it easier to cope with the pink ball
than when it was first rolled out as a Sheffield Shield experiment in the
2013-14 season.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
24th Nov. 2016.
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