Multi-coloured Cricket Stumps

[Forest Green Bluebird]

Not being a cricket aficionado, why are the stumps being used in the Ashes blue with a rainbow at the bottom?

Do plain wood stumps provide a harder target to aim at (mainly for fielders), since they blend in with the colour of the wicket?

I can understand the use of coloured stumps when teams are playing in non-white kit under floodlights, but not in daytime matches when, I assume, most teams are wearing the traditional 'whites'.

[bobh]

Re: Multi-coloured Cricket Stumps

In today's social climate, it's probably a nod to the lbgt+ljhgfjydfkfk community

[Maurice Swan]

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I thought the same thing and was going to write and decry the rainbow colours especially, but then I thought I would be vilified for not being "inclusive"!!

[Forest Green Bluebird]

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I've not got a problem with the rainbow symbol, as long as it is not adorning the base of a set of cricket stumps ... anyway isn't the LBGTQ+ community represented by more colours than that of a rainbow.

Perhaps those in 'control' of cricket need to think of a way to make the sport more welcoming to 'Brits' of different heritage and those who were not privately educated.

[The Bloop]

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Makes them easier for everyone to see basically.

[Dave Blue]

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Makes them easier for everyone to see basically.

Dressing like rainbows does tend to make it easier to be seen.

[life on mars]

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Virtue signalling.

https://thesportsrush.com/cricket-news-why-are-stumps-painted-rainbow-in-leeds-ashes-2023-test/

[Elwood Blues]

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I really have more important things to think about!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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They make it easier for the batsmen's to be out.

[Divine Wright]

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Virtue signalling.

https://thesportsrush.com/cricket-ne...hes-2023-test/

bigot bait.

weed em out.

hoist em up.

[Forest Green Bluebird]

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Virtue signalling.

https://thesportsrush.com/cricket-ne...hes-2023-test/

That explains it all ... thanks.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Definitely the worst type of “inclusivity” as it makes literally no impact on my enjoyment of test cricket while it makes others feel included.

[J R Hartley]

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Imagine getting upset over coloured sticks of wood :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

[insider]

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They do it to wind up old moaners.
It looks like it's working tbh.

[lardy]

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Imagine getting upset over coloured sticks of wood :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

A cast iron guarantee that every single person remotely bothered about this also calls young people snowflakes at every opportunity.