What Are Cricket Balls Traditionally Made Of?

Cricket balls are round leather balls containing cork centres that are traditionally wrapped tightly with string to provide extra protection and can be found wrapped tightly within protective coverings for bowling use. Bowlers utilize these balls in order to produce variations in air trajectories (known as swinging) or create sideways movement when hitting the pitch (known as seaming).

The cricket ball’s combination of spherical shape and rough surface enables bowlers to control its direction of lateral revolution, and variations in trajectory when hit by batsmen can deviate significantly from its intended path, leading to several deaths during club matches and serious injuries.

Top-grade cricket balls consist of two halves sewn together with an eye-catching seam on each half, created by stitching along four pieces of leather that resemble orange peel shaped like quartered orange peel, to form an hexagonal structure joined internally by string and tied off at either end with pink string to increase night visibility and decrease wear on the ball. Other colors have been tested out as ways of improving night visibility and decreasing wear on its components.

Condition can have a large impact on how a ball moves through the air, so the laws of cricket specify how it should be maintained and altered by players during matches. Umpires regularly monitor professional one day and test match cricket balls used, and any damaged or lost balls will be replaced with similar age and usage balls; for younger cricketers safety purposes they often play with tennis balls or air-filled plastic ‘windballs’ for safety before transitioning onto traditional hard balls once older.