By Tanya Aldred
THE MIDSUMMER rounds of Championship cricket have been accompanied by a chorus of bafflement about the use of the Kookaburra ball – about the dullness of some of the cricket, and why it was being used by players who were unlikely to go to Australia, while England and India do battle with a Dukes.
But Rob Key, the managing director of England men’s cricket, remains positive. “The misconception is that we are using the ball because of the Ashes,” he says. “But it is because we want the county game to replicate as much as possible the i...
