This has pretty much become the offical Cricket ball, other manufacturers are out the running but I always felt Kookaburra balls swung less but spun more.
Dukes ball has a man power stitch while Kookabura does it with a machine. Nevertheless both the companies manufacture world's greatest red balls and their CEO's earn a sense of satiafaction watching Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins respectively swinging and bouncing the balls in their regions. Our Indian bowlers also prefer a Dukes or a Kookabura when they play Test criclet. SG company should learn from them and make quality balls only to gain kudos and not laments from the Indian players as it did face critical review recently after England drubbed India by 227 runs in 1st Test at Cheapuk from spinner R.Ashwin and our captain Virat Kohli. - My personal views
You have to be a good bowler with a Kookaburra. Dukes make ordinary bowlers look good by the raised seam which makes it do weird things. That's why the English bowlers love em.
for me it is the best and it spins more and keeps shape a lot longer even after a 45 over game. used loads in the nets and was surprised by the durability.
Kookaburra is one of the best cricket brands in the world. They are good at both making bats and balls. Kookaburra Kahuna and Kookaburra Angry Birds were two of the best 10 cricket bats in the world.
Dukes don't swing after 14 overs. Kookaburra balls also keep their shape for longer, and never crack or peel like the video said. I have played with both, I love Dukes, but I do prefer Kookaburra.
Whatever may be the debate, but truth is kookaburra is preferred ball by almost all the test playing nations except India and England. No marketing by English and Indian boards.
Rupom Biswas dukes are completely hand stitched unlike kookaburra so it lasts longer and swings more. In short, dukes are good for test games but kookaburras are well suited for shorter formats.
@@evak5494 how many ICC champions ship u have won except last world cup Although Morgan himself says that no one looses in the match English players are so sweet and modest but English fans Oh my god
Kookaburra's are much more superior to the Duke, I don't need to tell you why, the list is to long, however I think you need to do your research before saying something so stupid and out there.
i mean "100% hand made" doesnt mean better, its just means that they chose a less efficient more expensive method of manufacturing. "its better because they didnt use a machine" is really just a marketing ploy. if anything handcrafting is not going to be able to reproduce the consistency and uniformity as machine made. also i doubt everything is hand made. i find it had to believe that that didnt use any hand tools and presses. a machine is still a machine whether its hand powered or powered. a ball wont know the different id the corck is press by a dude cranking a screw or a robot pressing it and a patch of leather is a patch of leather regardless of where are not someone cut it out with a knife/scissors or a pig press pressed a cutter into a blank and made 50 at once instead of 50 in an hour. theyre both still operated and monitored by a person. that said the dukes ball is sexy as fuck
I unstitched a worn out Kookaburra ball and found that the core was not like the one shown in the video rather a rubber ball :s. It was not Turf Kookaburra though.
Have your ever played top level cricket to know the difference? The Ex-Players have shared a lot of time in the commentary that Dukes ball wouldn't last for long in hard wickets of Australia and else where. Whereas Dukes are manufactured predominately to be used in English conditions.
