The advent of pink balls,evening sessions and a grassy pitch has changed the very nature of contests at Adelaide OvalWhen England’s cricketers walk onto Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon Australian Central Daylight Time, they’ll enter a fresh Ashes world. Cricket doesn’t so much have revolutions as fine gradations of change – the thickness of a bat here, or the length of a game there. Playing Test matches at night with a different type of ball is the sport’s equivalent of the sack of Rome. After the tensions of the past week,we know who England see as the barbarians.
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Source: guardian.co.uk