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Dukes have undertaken extra quality checks on the match balls they provide for England’s first Test following complaints about their sub-standard performance this season.
Dilip Jajodia, owner of the British manufacturer, has always hand-picked the balls for Test cricket in this country but has doubled down on the process amid accusations that the 2022 batch are going soft and out of shape prematurely.
He will therefore choose the best 24 off the production line and then whittle them down to 12 before handing them over for England v New Zealand at Lord’s, starting on Thursday.
Dukes owner Dilip Jajodia will double down on the process to select the balls for Lord's
Mail on Sunday columnist Stuart Broad highlighted the issue last week, when he said it felt like he’d been bowling with ‘a
