This Kookaburra-made smart ball made its debut at this year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL)The headline above does not in any way imply that, before now, cricket was not “smart”, or that it was played by “un-smart” personalities. For a long time, cricket was played only as Test match; a five-day game with one rest day – a total of six days for a match. And now the latest innovation in the game that is going to come through is the use of a “smart” cricket ball in matches. The smart ball looks, feels, and plays exactly the same way as a regular ball but has an embedded chip that registers many more data points than radar or ball tracking technology. Kookaburra-made smart ballThis Kookaburra-made smart ball made its debut at this year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which got underway in St Kitts & Nevis on 26 August.

Source: The Nation September 07, 2021 20:03 UTC