{"id":1289,"date":"2016-01-02T02:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T02:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2016-01-10T02:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T02:58:40","slug":"pakistan-imports-pink-balls-from-australia-for-first-class-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan imports pink balls from Australia for first-class final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1290\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"pink\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Pakistan will experiment with the pink ball in the final of its premier first-class cricket tournament in preparation for a possible day-night Test against Australia later this year, a cricket official said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>We had experimented with the orange ball in the final of the trophy in 2011 and then with a pink ball in 2012 so the latest final will help us further assess the pink ball as Australia have offered us to play a day-night Test later this year,&#8221; Pakistan Cricket Board`s committee head Shakil Sheikh told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has already imported pink balls from Australia for the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Quaid-e-Azam trophy final between Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq-led Sui Northern Gas Pipelines and Younis Khan-skippered United Bank will be played at the National stadium from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are ready to experiment at the highest level and this final will help the players and the board to consider the day-night Test offer, after which we will finalise our plans,&#8221; added Sheikh.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand played the first-ever day-night Test in Adelaide in November last year, an experiment initiated to lift waning interest in the five-day format of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The International Cricket Council termed the day-night Test a &#8220;success&#8221;, while Cricket Australia announced a record-breaking crowd for non-Ashes Test matches at the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Test players expected to participate in the match are: Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, Shan Masood, Wahab Riaz and Ehsan Adil.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Pakistan will experiment with the pink ball in the final of its premier first-class cricket&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,5,9,3,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",640,366,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",640,366,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",700,400,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",700,400,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",700,400,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pink.jpg",480,274,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}