Ashley Giles: Warwickshire must embrace change
Warwickshire sport director Ashley Giles wants Bears to embrace change as they face a pink ball under floodlights at Edgbaston tomorrow.
The Bears face Lancashire at Edgbaston (2pm start) as part of a round of championship day/nighters organised to help players get used to playing with a pink ball under lights.
“It’s hugely important that we embrace change and especially with England playing at least three Tests under lights in the near future,” Giles told Warwickshire’s official website.
“It’s hugely important that we embrace change and especially with England playing at least three Tests under lights in the near future,” he said. “It will be interesting to see how teams play it - whether they try to score more quickly, when they get the spinners on and whether they bring the seamers back on for the dusk period. The cut-off point is 9pm so it will not be totally dark even then and, whatever the conditions overhead, it will come down to the same batting and bowling skills as ever.
“But I am sure that as we play more championship cricket under lights in the coming seasons more subtleties will come into play and strategies will evolve as they have in T20.
“I am sure that as we play more championship cricket under lights in the coming seasons”
He added: “We have practised with the pink balls. All the guys have played under lights before, of course, but not all have played with a pink ball so it’s important they get as accustomed to it as possible.”
