Australia may have sealed a 3-0 clean sweep in the Test tour of the West Indies, but their head coach, Andrew McDonald isn\u2019t too pleased with how things panned out in the final Pink ball Test.<\/p>\n
While the pink-ball format is designed to make Test cricket more exciting, McDonald strongly believes that using the Dukes ball simply on tricky surfaces of the Caribbean wasn’t fair play for the batters.<\/p>\n
Follow The Sporting News India on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n His comments now raise serious questions about the future of pink-ball Tests with Dukes in the longer format.<\/p>\n Why is Andrew McDonald unhappy with Dukes ball used in Pink-ball Test?<\/p>\n In the final Test at Sabina Park, Australia bowled West Indies out for just 27 runs<\/a>, sparking heavy discussion on the pitch, ball and match conditions.<\/p>\n McDonald said that judging the quality of batting in such a scenario is unfair. He believes that the surfaces used in the three-match series didn\u2019t allow proper assessment of either side\u2019s batting skills.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to make accurate judgments on both batting units based upon the surfaces that we played on,\u201d McDonald told SEN Radio.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you take that into the third Test, which is a pink-ball Dukes on that surface, that game just moved way too fast and at times, it didn\u2019t even look like cricket.”<\/p>\n According to McDonald, the game moved so quickly and unnaturally under lights that it barely resembled normal Test cricket. He noted that some deliveries were almost unplayable, especially those bowled by Mitchell Starc<\/a>,\u00a0with the pink Dukes ball behaving unpredictably.<\/p>\n