Some informations About The Cricket Balls

Cricket is a game of bat and ball. Both of them are equally important. This round shaped cork ball created bowlers like Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Shoaib Akhtar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Curtly Ambrose, Sir Richard Hadlee, Alan Donald, Dennis Lillee and many legendary bowlers. Everybody will remember them game as long as cricket lives. Terms like fast bowl, medium fast bowl, leg spin bowl, off spin bowl, bounce bowl, etc. are the outcomes of the cricket ball.
The bowling is a skill, and to craft the skill bowlers need to learn the construction of the ball very well. They have to become the master of controlling the ball. They need to learn how to grip the ball and how to control the seam.
The weight of a cricket ball is 155.9-163.0 grams and its circumference is 8 13/16-9 inches. But women and young cricketers use little bit smaller balls. If we think about the construction of the cricket ball, we can easily find that they are very hard indeed. In fact, a fairly new cricket ball is little bit difficult to catch or to stop for a newbie. Its edge is very sharp. Even the professional crickets have to be very careful while they play. Serious injuries are not uncommon in cricket. Even death occurred! That is why players have to wear protective equipment.
The cricket ball history  started  in 1877. Test cricket, one day cricket, and the latest shortest version Twenty 20 are the three accepted international formats of cricket all over the world. The choice of the ball depends a lot on the format of the game. Currently, Test cricket is five days long; one day cricket takes more than seven hours and the latest Twenty20 takes about three hours to complete. For the Test match red balls are the best choice from the very first Test match in history. Red balls are regarded very stable though after 80 overs the fielding side can change the ball if the skipper wants to change it, and try to attack his opponent with his fast bowlers.
For one day cricket white balls get preference, but they are not perfect. Sometimes they get dirty very quickly. So, according to the latest rule of one day cricket two new cricket balls must be used from two sides of the wicket in a one day match. This is a good decision indeed. It will give the batsmen more comfort and eventually makes cricket more popular all over the world. Twenty20 matches are only 20 overs long, so there is no need to use two balls at a time while the game progresses.