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Message: [QUOTE="1910, post: 3544433, member: 8272"] Certainly older than 37 overs it seems! An investigation is set to be launched into the[URL='https://www.couriermail.com.au/cricket/ashes-cricket-2023-did-new-ball-controversy-rob-australia-of-epic-series-win-over-england-in-fifth-test/news-story/d28e870f1c898e04e57901c3968edd7c'] Ashes ball-swapping fiasco[/URL], amid speculation the offending ball that cost Australia victory was from a previous series when a more bowler-friendly product was used in Tests. When Australia was 0-135 and hunting history-making Ashes glory in the fifth Test at The Oval earlier this week, a replacement ball granted to England after just 37 overs swung and seamed as if it had a mind of its own and completely changed the course of the game. Such was the bizarre way the ball behaved from when it was brought out to the middle to the end of the innings, it played strikingly similar to a batch of balls produced from 2018-19 when the Dukes’ ball proved devastating for batsmen. [/QUOTE]

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