New Zealand's fancy pants
Australia employed GPS tracking and virtual batting studios to train their cricketers. England went so far to build a mechanical Shane Warne. Now New Zealand are bringing their squad into the 21st Century with their own innovation: high tech pants:
The trousers - manufactured by New Zealand-based outfitters Canterbury - were set to be used only from October, but they have been tried in practice. Also included is the micro-slide version for fielders, and the IonX BaseLayer performance underwear which is claimed to improve performance by 2.7%.
"To start with, we looked at putting two patches on the bowlers' trousers - one to shine the ball, and one to scuff it up, in case you wanted to produce reverse-swing. But we have since dropped the abrasive patch. I'm a member of MCC, and I didn't want to lose my membership for going against the spirit of cricket."
They say matches are won by those one-percenters, that extra bit of effort or skill that gives you the edge over your opponent. Now the Black Caps have underwear that apparently make them 2.7% better (but better at what?) Still, if matches are won by that 1% edge, their magic new undies should make them world beaters!
| Posted by JC on Thu 5 Jun | 13 comments |
The Kiwis have a good bowling line up but fail consistently with the bat - what they need is a magic piece of willow, not a magic grundy.
Posted by virtualgaz on 2008-06-05 22:27:56
Or will the rules (or breaking of them) be taken into accounted when teams from subcontinent wear these pants.
Bats laced with graphite, pink balls , and now the pants for ball tampering, thus the game evolves….
Cheers,
Posted by unsuidojo on 2008-06-06 06:23:48
However ,the Kiwis do not miss out on wins by 1%. They have lost four out of five test matches against an England side bereft of Flintoff, Jones, Harmison, Hoggard and Trescothick. In only two of those Test were they in the game after the second morning, and one of those was due to rain. If they are to be worth the money, these pants and trousers had better be so magical that they can actually give batting lessons to their top order.
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