How are cricket balls made?
Around 40 cricket balls are made from the hide of a single slaughtered cow.
The Mumbai Cricket club alone needs around 12,000 cricket balls per year.
A ball is not used beyond 80 overs in professional games.
A cricket ball needs tender cow skin. It is not procured from the skin of already dead cows. Cows are actively slaughtered, also illegally, for it. Meerut produces 50% of all cricket balls used in India.
What's the alternative? An English London cricket club (Earley Cricket Club in Reading) is leading the way with vegan Ahimsa cricket balls.
I contacted the club & they responded that they use the SG Everlast PU cricket balls which they found to be the best.
I did a quick search & found this supplier to the USA. SG Everlast Cricket Ball Weather Resistant Made Of PVC - Cricket Best Buy
We can start a movement & eventually make all of cricket Ahimsa. Please speak up & request your cricket clubs to use the Ahimsa cricket balls.
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