* A cricket ball weighs 5.5 to 5.7 ounces or 150 grams to 0.161 grams in Men’s cricket and in female’s cricket, it’s from 140 g to 151 g
* A cricket ball is made up of with cork covered by tightly string layers of leather
* In international cricket, there companies produce cricket balls.One is kookaburra second is SG and the third is Duke
* In India, SG balls is used.Duke ball is used in English conditions.
Rest of the cricketing countries use Kookaburra
* Kookaburra is made up with machines.Other side, both SG and Duke are handmade.
While Duke ball swings more, Duke and SG follows.SG and Duke have better grip for the spinners
* The swing factor in Duke lasts longer.
Although it’s second to Kookaburra in early overs, Duke hold more reverse swing in the later part of the innings
* Cricket balls is played in three colors.As you know, Red ball is in day tests, white ball is played in limited overs and newly introduced pink ball is played in day night test matches.
Irrespective of location, white ball produced by kookaburra is used in limited overs cricket all over the world
* The cricket ball swings on the opposite side of the shiny side and and an old ball in the same innings reverse swings on the same side of the shiny side.A tennis ball doesn’t swing at all
* Jalandhar is the place in India where cricket balls are produced.Sialkot in Pakistan and different states of Australia also produce cricket balls
* The top 5 fastest cricket ball deliveries are :
161.3 kmph – Shoaib Akhtar 161.1 kmph – Shaun Tait 161.1 kmph – Brett Lee 160.6 kmph – Jeff Thompson 160.4 kmph – Mitchell Starc
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