Think pink. SA will do plenty of just that in the coming days as they prepare to make their acquaintance with cricket’s newest toy.SA will start their tour to Australia at the weekend with a day/night warm-up match using the pink ball at Adelaide Oval.The visitors will return to Adelaide in November to play what could be the deciding game of the Test series under the same conditions. "I haven’t faced or thrown the pink ball around so it’s all pretty new to me," captain Faf du Plessis told reporters on Tuesday after the squad’s arrival in Adelaide."I know some of the guys have pink balls in their kit, especially the bowlers. We’ve asked around a little bit and read the stuff other teams have been saying about the pink ball."Some of that intelligence has been gathered in-house, what with Test squad members Stephen Cook, Dean Elgar, Temba Bavuma, Dane Vilas and Vernon Philander all having played a day/night first-class match on SA A’s tour to Australia in July and August."That’s why we...
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