day match starting Monday in Abu Dhabi will use pink balls as part of a bid by the ICC and officials governing the laws of cricket to eventually play the five-day Test format under lights to arrest its declining popularity. The Marylebone Cricket Club, which formulates the laws for the governing body, will play Durham under flood lights. White balls, used in one-day internationals instead of red ones for Tests and first-class cricket, have failed to retain their color over long stretches of time. Pink balls were recently used as an experiment in Australia but only in limited
