Barra's Bits: A Pink Ball Test?

Barra stopped by to chat with Lisa & Russell ahead of the second leg of The Ashes, and things got very educational. Lisa had a few burning cricket questions - starting with the big one: what on earth is a Day–Night Test? Barra broke it down, explained why the ball is pink, and even dropped a few stats along the way. With form lines tightening and momentum swinging, the big question remains… who will take this one out? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're back with Barra. Yes morning, no special little ashes report.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yes, because big morning isn't I guess what happens at
noon Perth time? Day night are at the GABATOI another
two day test.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Pink ball test. I don't reckon this will be a
two day but a pink ball test.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't think I've I don't reckon I've ever heard
of a day night ASHES test. No, that's probably right.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
But I don't know about an ASHES.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah. And twenty fifteen is when they started doing these
day nighters and also using the pink ball. I know
you teach me about the name Gabatoire, but the poems
haven't beaten us there since the eighties. Well, so that's
why we.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hadn't meaten us here in Perth since nineteen seventy eight.
And we've kept that stretch going.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
The other one that but the pink ball lease, it's
I knew to grab your attention. It's a great new
innovation in some ways because it just and the reason
it's pink is because you can't really see the red
at night, even with lights.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
When I think of the pink ball test, I think
of glamor grass test.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
The cancel one.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes fundraiser as well. It's called the pink test. Actually
one watch out for Steve Smith today. He's going to
be a huge talking point. Probably he'll get he'll get
spoken about on air more than anything else because he's
going to have black tape under his eyes. It looks
like so you know, when I've seen Tom Brady in
the NFL, they.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Were the helmets.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah. Yeah, But because it's a day night thing, the
glare for the glare, it's supposed to cut the glares
some foot parah apparently, even even if it's a place ebo.
If Smithy does that, everyone's going to do it. It looks dramatic,
it does, it looks cool. It actually looks pretty cool.
The young blokes will be wearing it.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
It looks like, you know, all over the shop, all
kind of a bit of intimidation.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's funny, old Steve Smith. If he
used a scented candle in his locker or something, all
the players would do it. Or a crystal dropping a
crystal over his bat before I reckon. If anywhere needs
a scented candle, it's a men's it's a men's stream.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Blocker exactly, husband Kawaja won't be out in the middle.
He'll be at a I guess Brisbane team off with.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You after you called for him to be sacked and retired.
That's what's happened. He hasn't retired yet, but they know.
I think it's the right time. Yeah, when you call
off the stadium a piece of the s H one
t you know, you just h You've just got to
copy somewhere. Yeah. So prediction is Australia to win. We will.
Historically we never get beaten up there. Josh Inglis has

(02:30):
been selected the West Australian boy to play in the team,
so that'll be brilliant having another West Australian in the
team along with Cameron Green. How many days do you
reckon because now after a two day test everyone's talking
about how many days a test might go for.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, the thing is being Brisbane and a little subtropical,
it's the rain going to come into play.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I might save the two and froms its Often
it is a draw there and then they're off to
sidhany where it can rain as well. That's right anyway,
So prediction as he winning. Steve smith I tape gets
more airtime than the actual cricket.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You guys, we'll talk to you again tomorrow to you know,
wrap up Day one