Starc unimpressed by pink ball

MELBOURNE: The Australian cricketer with the most relevant experience of the pink ball to be used in next summer’s day-night Test experiment against New Zealand says he could not see the ball when fielding and has reservations about the concept.
Mitchell Starc played for New South Wales in a day-night Sheffield Shield fixture against South Australia at Adelaide Oval last summer, the same ground where the Test will be played. He is “yet to be convinced”.
“It’s definitely not a red ball,” Starc said. “It doesn’t react anything like the red ball, in terms of swing and the hardness of it anyway. It goes soft pretty quickly, I didn’t see a huge amount of reverse swing in that game and I don’t think it swung from memory too much until the artificial light took over. It definitely reacts very, very differently to the red ball.
“The other thing as well is, personally, I couldn’t see the thing at night on the boundary. I couldn’t see the ball. So I’m not sure how the crowd are going to see it.
“Time will tell if it works with the crowds and the viewership and the way that cricketers respond to it.”