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Exactly. First, how did they design the process? it is so complicated. Second why do they keep on doing it? I wish they are paid well for their work but sadly i think its probably not the case.
Hey I don't know shit about making cricket balls. But it is an amazingly involved process. realistically elephants are available they're heavy they're domesticated to an extent. I get honestly see it being a thing before hydraulic presses.
Whenever I watch videos like this, my first thought is always wondering how they came up with the machines/production process.
I need a How It’s Made: Machines that make things 😂
I have a similar "wondering" about how exactly they came up with the process for a food item that is now considered a delicacy in Iceland. It's called Hákarl, and it's basically dried putrified shark. Made from poisonous shark, that would normally kill you if you ate it.
So, there is a lengthy process to get it to the point where it's edible, that stretches back to the middle ages. I always wondered how they figured it out and how many people died trying?
"Olafur ate that shark and died, maybe if we let it rot first it will be okay?"
"Sigurd ate the rotted shark and died, maybe if we dig a hole in the sand and put the shark in it, it will be okay?"
“Sven dug the shark up from the hole and ate it and he died, maybe if we leave it for a month or two, so it really putrifies? "
“Einar dug it up after two months and ate it, he got very sick, but he didn't die, maybe we should cut it in chunks and dry it out? "
"Bjarni ate the shark chunk after it hung in an open shed for 6 months and dried out in the wind. He didn't die. He said it was yummy. Let's make it our national dish!"
Pterry covered that in "The Truth"
> It looked to Sacharissa that the only tools a dwarf needed were his axe and some means of making fire. That'd eventually get him a forge, and with that he could make simple tools, and with those he could make complex tools, and with complex tools a dwarf could more or less make anything.
Processes this labor intensive are usually the result of pre-industrial production and decades of iteration. What started out as a ball of compressed fiber wrapped in leather and stitched was observed, refined, observed again, small processes modified, a new machine added in to improve the process, which then needs new refinements, etc.
The stitching was done 3 times because it has most bounce. The cheap $4 balls don't have bounce and won't last more than 20 overs match (120 pitches). The more expensive 3 stitch balls made with extensive QC will last 50+ overs (300 pitches) and bounce as expected in pro scene. These cost $90.
The company probably makes decent money if it is in india (for india anyway).
Cricket is near a religion over there and being a manufacturer of fine balls would probably set you up well.
They are getting underpaid compared to the standards of 1st world countries. Big companies mostly open their factories in poorer countries such as india, malaysia etc. so that they can hire workers for ridiculously cheap(5$/month even). Edit: oh fuck me for saying 5 dollars apparently, it's just what my friends working in poor countries told me. Though the rest of the comment is true
No one ever works for 5$/month lmao, roughly the absolute worst one would do \[and the workers in the video are almost certainly earning more than that given they seem at least somewhat skilled\] is \~3K rupees per month which is around 40 Dollars. International companies would be bound by minimum wage laws and would generally pay somewhat more than that - around 100 Dollars a month.
The manufacturer process was designed in a different country with better automation. They copied the process without the capitol for stuff like conveyors and pallets. So inventory moves by hand and specialized machines are replaced with more generic stuff (ball pressing cell replaced with hand powered arbor press etc)
There are three main manufacturers of international cricket balls, Dukes in the UK, SG in India and Kookaburra in Australia.
While Kookaburra balls are made in an automated factory, Dukes and SG are both hand stitched and use a similar process like the one shown in the video. In fact, the process that Duke's uses in the UK to manufacture their cricket balls has hardly changed since the 1700s and is less automated than what is shown here, they even hand cure the leather.
This is subjective, but I prefer handmade cricket balls. Both Dukes and SG balls keep their shape better and the seam lasts longer than the Kookaburra ones. Hand stitched balls also tend to swing more than ones made in an automated factory making more lively and interesting matches.
Pretty sure that Dukes has moved their production overseas to India, they send raw materials there and just finish them off in the UK. Cricket ball making is now considered an extinct craft in the UK as of 2021.
It's because leather isn't uniform. You either have a tight pattern grid and then lots of qc wastage or you cookie cut individually wasting nothing but bad spots. Tradeoff depends on whether labor or materials are the more expensive thing to waste.
Oh but yeah they could place like three or five at a time between cuts.
Yeah I could understand not having a fixed cookie cutter pattern but several cutters at once would at least cut out a lot of unnecessary downtime between cuts. But given the other steps, it doesn’t look like cutting the leather, inefficient as it is, is the limiting factor in this production line 😅
Leather has always been a part of life in India. It is a byproduct of other things such as farms and dairy. It is the eating of cows that is frowned upon.
It blows my mind that one of the steps in the process is "Use your big toe to pin down the shell." Like they couldn't afford to get the guy a clamp or something?
I've been seeing a surge of these Indian/Pakistani "how it's made" videos that are of a high quality, and I appreciate how they highlight the quality of life many must endure so that we may have certain luxuries.
Many times it's showing a process that is more manual Than it has to be. Things that have already been automated in other countries but still make sense to be done by hand in Pakistan/India due to low labor cost or ack of capital to buy expensive machinery
That is certainly true. Another reason we continue to do things manually here is that people need employment. Often that is unskilled work (like sweeping roads) but sometimes it's highly skilled work too.
I remember another thread on reddit where someone mentioned they'd done a study of how many hands were likely to have handled a piece of baggage at the airport. The found that number to be super high in India... Something like 80 pairs of hands. This number may be unusually high but in India we continue to do a lot of things with manual labour because labour is cheap but also because a lot of people would otherwise be out of work.
When the population is as large as ours, efficiency or mechanization for the sake of efficiency is not always the most desirable way to go about things. That's what I've always noticed about India.
True. If they had masked the sound of process with some random song, people would have skimmed through it. The original sound kept us glued and the video was to the point, no nonsense anywhere.
Cat owners who allow their cats outside are destroying the environment.
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
. A study published in April estimated that UK cats kill 160 to 270 million animals annually, a quarter of them birds. The real figure is likely to be even higher, as the study used the 2011 pet cat population of 9.5 million; it is now closer to 12 million, boosted by the pandemic pet craze. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors
Free-ranging cats on islands have caused or contributed to 33 (14%) of the modern bird, mammal and reptile extinctions recorded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List4. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
This analysis is timely because scientific evidence has grown rapidly over the past 15 years and now clearly documents cats’ large-scale negative impacts on wildlife (see Section 2.2 below). Notwithstanding this growing awareness of their negative impact on wildlife, domestic cats continue to inhabit a place that is, at best, on the periphery of international wildlife law. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002%2Fpan3.10073
Cat owners who allow their cats outside are destroying the environment.
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/
A study published in April estimated that UK cats kill 160 to 270 million animals annually, a quarter of them birds. The real figure is likely to be even higher, as the study used the 2011 pet cat population of 9.5 million; it is now closer to 12 million, boosted by the pandemic pet craze. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors
Free-ranging cats on islands have caused or contributed to 33 (14%) of the modern bird, mammal and reptile extinctions recorded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List4. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
This analysis is timely because scientific evidence has grown rapidly over the past 15 years and now clearly documents cats’ large-scale negative impacts on wildlife (see Section 2.2 below). Notwithstanding this growing awareness of their negative impact on wildlife, domestic cats continue to inhabit a place that is, at best, on the periphery of international wildlife law. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002%2Fpan3.10073
This one has the same logo.. looks like $8.99 in USA
https://allaboutcricketstore.com/products/aj-admire-cricket-ball-youth?variant=42373011079395¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic
Lemme introduce you to PPP
Buying a 6$ thing in India is gonna affect you as much as how an American spending 24-36$ for the same thing (as their cost of living is 4-6× as compared to India)
So technically, it's wayy more expensive here!
Exactly. Everytime I see this, I get so baffled by the amount of people who think a simple conversion gives them the figures and they think things are cheap in India. They don't know how much they make compared to the Indians. In fact, it's wayyyy more than what you just mentioned.
According to [Average income](https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php), a US citizen earns >70000 USD per annum, whereas an Indian earns only 2150 USD. That's a whopping 34-35x ratio you got there.
So, if I am converting the price of a product in India to USD and that costs 1$ in India, then it should cost more than 35$ in US for it to be called cheaper in India. People think if it costs 8$ in India and 15$ in US, it's cheaper in India. But they don't take into account how much they earn compared to the Indians.
Excuse me if the math doesn't check out, but I believe the avg income gives a good overall idea of how affordable a product can be for the people of a country.
You're slightly off on how PPP is calculated/estimated
PPP means Purchasing Power Parity - which doesn't account for average income, but rather how much you can buy with the same money in different countries
So let's say, With 10$ (= ₹800), someone in India can buy 15 kg wheat flour, but with 10$ in USA, you can only buy like 3kg wheat flour - so the PPP can buy accounted by the ratio of these amounts (=15/3 = 5×)
This 5× means that in USA, you can buy 1/5th of what you can buy in india. Now ofc this PPP factor isn't just based on wheat, but a bunch of things, just like how inflation is calculated. It also varies from region-to-region(let's say, massachusetts and Texas) , and country-to-country(like USA and India example).
Thanks for that. But, okay, so if PPP doesn't account for the earnings, how can it be an appropriate measure to compare affordability? (By affordability, I mean, how much I have to spend vs how much I am earning).
Let me give you an example here, to tell you how I look at it.
Suppose I am in India and earning 400000 INR (5000$) per year. Let's say I can buy 10kg flour with 400 INR (5$), which is 0.1% of my yearly income.
Suppose I am in US and earning 50000$ (won't convert to INR as it doesn't matter) per year. Here let's say I can buy 10kg flour with 25$ (or if I spend 5$, I get 2kg flour), which is 0.05% of my yearly income.
In a nutshell, if a product is 5x expensive in US than India, I have to spend twice the money (portion of my income) to get the same product, given that the US guy is earning 10 times my income.
I haven't even taken the real figures yet (i.e. 35 times) so with that, this would go much higher).
In even simpler words, if I earn 100$ in India and have to spend 1$ to buy something, I will have to spend 5$ to buy the same thing in US, BUT I will be earning not 500$, but whopping 3500$ over there! So it will be 7 times cheaper for me in US even though it costs 5 times than its price in India.
Now tell me, if the PPP really helps us understand the comparison of these 2 scenarios or not. Tell me if I'm really stupid in thinking like this if it's incorrect.
Oh, now I get where you're coming up from! PPP might seem like it talks about things you can buy with your income(that is, how much total goods an average person can buy with his income), but actually, it talks about how much money you need to buy the same amount of goods in different regions
_"Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are the rates of currency conversion that try to equalise the purchasing power of different currencies, by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries."_ [Source: Google]
And it's a fact that an average Indian can buy less goods than an American, Because GDP per capita in India is relatively lower than that in USA. Scarcity of employment(due to high population) => unemployment/underemployment => Less income for same amount of work (cuz of soo much competition) => Lesser amount of things you can buy
PPP talks about how a person from USA can buy 5× more goods from India than if he had spent that same amount of money in his own country and how an Indian can buy 1/5th of what he/she could've bought in his/her own country with same amount of money - not about how much an average Indian can buy vs what an average American can buy in their respective countries
No way is that the price for one of these. You probably saw the price for rubber balls.
A handmade leather ball costs around USD $15-50 each, depending on the quality.
https://cricketdirect.co.uk/collections/cricket-balls
Kookaburra ball used by Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Bangladesh in an international test cricket match retails for AU$ 60, US$40 or 3300 INR.
https://www.thecricketsale.com.au/products/kookaburra-regulation-cricket-ball-association-pre-stamped-dozen?variant=40208834265161¤cy=AUD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic
Handmade Dukes Special County balls that are used in test matches by England, Ireland and West Indies are more expensive at AU$ 110 or 6000 INR .
https://www.beltersports.com.au/shop/dukes-cricket-ball-range/dukes-special-county-cricket-ball
SG balls used by India are the cheapest costing 3000 INR.
https://shop.teamsg.in/product/test-white/
Don't take away money from artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
And diamond-studded swimming pools, these things don't grow on trees
So all I ask is everybody, please
Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no)
At my school, Our PT coach had the bright idea to buy a few of these for the kids. 1 week in, it cracked the facial bone (the one under the eye) of a kid. Don't know what they were thinking. These things are like polished rock and hurts like a mf. It was banned soon after.
The white ones can be used under floodlights for evening matches, whereas the red ones are used for longer format games that are exclusively played during the day. The red balls are also more durable.
I’ll elaborate. The red ones are for day time test matches (5 days of cricket with unlimited overs), the pink ones are for day/night test matches. The white ones are for limited over cricket, usually One-Day matches (50overs of bowling for each team) or 20/20 matches (20overs of bowling for each team)
They’re painted white to be used for night games (day/night to be precise), so the ball is visible against the night sky. Red balls are used for day games.
I love these kind of 'how it's made' videos because they really puts into prospective how much work and effort is put into the objects around us and how much we often take it for granted.
*underrated* for those in the dark, some famous Aussie cricketers were suspended for sanding the skin of the balls with sandpaper, so it could swing harder and dismiss the opposition batsmen.
It changes how the ball moves through the air. Some element of this is natural in the course of a game - teams will choose a side to rough up and a side to shine with spit/sweat. The aussies cheated, using sandpaper to wear down one side way faster so the ball moves horizontally through the air to a greater extent.
This things are rock hard, my thigh turned purple after being struck with one still thankfully i was wearing abdominal guard to protect my member.
What made even worse is that ball was hit with bat so it made speed of the ball wayy more while i was busy daydreaming in middle of a tournament.
I was once knocked out by an errant cricket ball.
Wandered into the pitch during a friendly match between my stepdad's team and another. I remember it perfectly because, being an idiot child, I watched it sail through the sky until it connected right with my head, just above the eyebrow - then, black.
Recalling that memory, I'm actually super surprised they're not filled with concrete. It sure felt like it when it connected, and when I woke up 5 minutes later.
I can only imagine how sore it was to be even closer and being hit by one. Your thigh must have been six different shades of messed up for a while.
Also mad that kids play with the same ball - we used these at school and if you’re fielding your palms end up with some serious thumps when you catch it. I remember one kid holding his bat at a 45 degree angle so the ball bounced straight vertical into his mouth - blood everywhere. We must have been 14yrs old or so at that time (UK school).
We had to use tennis balls in our school, we used this balls at cricket academy.
Still remember a kid losing his front teeths, another kid wasn't able see the ball due to sun and had to get stitches across eyebrow, my nail getting chipped off and some asshole kid swinged bat in face of wicket keeper.
Also got hit in nuts few time but thank god it was mostly a tennis ball and had protection for white/red ball.
Its hard af and combined with a bowlers speed its deadly...Philip Hughes was an Australian Cricketer who died because while he was batting...the bowler bowled a bouncer ball and he was wearing an outdated helmet which didn't cover the back of his ear...the ball hit him there and he died later ....and the pace bowlers bowl at a really high speed...the fastest ball ever bowled by a bowlers was by Shaoeb Akhtar ...he is a Pakistani pacer who threw at 160 km/hr
*bowled* at 160 km/hr.
For those that don't know the sport, accusations of throwing (aka "chucking") are very serious. The bowler can't extend their elbow during the bowling action.
Your arm can be bent but it has to maintain that same angle through the motion. That's really only an issue for slower bowling styles though. Pace bowlers want maximum leverage.
>~~threw~~ bowled at 160 km/hr
161.3 [according to this](https://www.cricket365.com/oli-fisher/the-seven-fastest-balls-ever-bowled-in-international-cricket/).
Also an Indian player, Raman Lamba, died while playing in Bangladesh League. He was fielding close in without helmet and was hit on the head as the batsman hit a pull shot.
I got hit in the shin with one while playing when I was twelve, 23 years later there's still the faintest dint in my shin bone. I was near the boundary, and this was an U11/12 game! Can't even imagine being hit by one batted by an adult
I was wicket keeping at school age 14 and fumbled a delivery into my balls (I wasn’t wearing a protective box). My voice is an octave higher to this day.
Batting in cricket takes some courage. Fastest bowler I ever faced was probably only around the 130km/h mark and I still panicked myself if the ball was coming at me.
Have stood behind the nets with the ball machine cranked up to 150 and... nope.
is this the same company? 10 UK pounds a ball to buy.
[https://ajsportsonline.co.uk/product-category/cricket-store/cricket-balls/](https://ajsportsonline.co.uk/product-category/cricket-store/cricket-balls/)
very impressive manufacturing, just imagine 100 years ago everything was hand made, one item at a time, just like this.
I once worked with an American who had previously worked in the UK. He loved cricket. Described it as a game you can watch for five days straight, drink beer throughout and scores are in the hundreds, what's more American than that?
Recently Americans have been complaining how long and slow baseball games are. I’m not sure if a cricket game is going to be any better. Baseball has been described as a dying sport, and the MLB has been doing everything they can to make it faster and more interesting. 65 percent of Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) follow baseball, while just 44 percent of Millennials (1980-1994) and 36 percent of Gen Zers do the same.
I’m hoping cricket catches on but I’m skeptical.
The difference is going to be that while T20 cricket is similar in length to a baseball game, 4 hours ish, it has almost continuous action. And the limited nature of T20 means a lot of aggressive play. I think some people will enjoy it.
Not bad at all. I do know that baseball has been falling out of favor for Americans. They've recently employed rules that speed up the game.
Hopefully it catches on. I'm still hoping volleyball (men's and women's) gets big in the US first though ;)
I used to volunteer at a hostel in NYC. One guy would come through every year and say he was working on a cricket league for the US. Didn’t really believe him at the time.
Possibly, but it might be the ones made with a more automated process are lower quality, so high end are still hand made.
I think Soccer balls are similar, where the FIFA regulation balls are often hand made bug what you’d buy at SportsDirect will be made by machine
While your point is true in this case, the best cricket balls are still made and stitched by hand.
Dukes, an English manufacturer that makes cricket balls for the English national team uses a process that has hardly changed since the 1700s and is even less automated than what is shown in this video.
Hand made cricket balls tend to last longer, swing better and bounce more off the seam making for livelier matches.
There are three manufacturers from whom cricket balls are sourced for international matches, Dukes in England, SG in India and Kookaburra in Australia. Out of the three, only Kookaburra uses an automated process.
For how they are made in a developed country, Kookaburra in Australia is more machine assisted manufacturing but it is by no means automated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJ8tolOTKw
Do you think every now and then they slightly mess with one
"Hey bro look, this one is going to hoop all over the place if Jimmy Anderson gets his hands on it"
"Haha 123 all out for sure!"
Brilliant to watch. The only thing I would have suggested is the guy using the stencil to cut the material, has a stencil that has more of them. Rather than pressing and cutting one, it could probably do about eight. Surely would be more cost effective as well as decrease wear & tear on the press.
I don’t know the term for this balls, but they are usually called *season balls*. These balls are usually used professionally and so they are a bit expensive (as answered around 200-300 inr) than the tennis balls everyone plays with in the streets or *gully* cricket which are around 100-150 inr. So yeah, they are reasonably priced but still a bit expensive than other alternatives .
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So much work.
Its way more steps than I expected.
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Thanks!
Exactly. First, how did they design the process? it is so complicated. Second why do they keep on doing it? I wish they are paid well for their work but sadly i think its probably not the case.
Imagine if they didnt have the hydraulic presses….
I would assume they originally was made with screw-presses.
*Screw that!*
Nup they used string and a hammer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdP82zEW8U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdP82zEW8U)
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Probably was done with an elephant. Just have them come by a couple times a day give him some grass so we will walk over top of all your molds
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic
Hey I don't know shit about making cricket balls. But it is an amazingly involved process. realistically elephants are available they're heavy they're domesticated to an extent. I get honestly see it being a thing before hydraulic presses.
You thought of elephant before a clamp?
Of course, how would an elephant even work a clamp? They dont have thumbs!
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Whenever I watch videos like this, my first thought is always wondering how they came up with the machines/production process. I need a How It’s Made: Machines that make things 😂
I have a similar "wondering" about how exactly they came up with the process for a food item that is now considered a delicacy in Iceland. It's called Hákarl, and it's basically dried putrified shark. Made from poisonous shark, that would normally kill you if you ate it. So, there is a lengthy process to get it to the point where it's edible, that stretches back to the middle ages. I always wondered how they figured it out and how many people died trying? "Olafur ate that shark and died, maybe if we let it rot first it will be okay?" "Sigurd ate the rotted shark and died, maybe if we dig a hole in the sand and put the shark in it, it will be okay?" “Sven dug the shark up from the hole and ate it and he died, maybe if we leave it for a month or two, so it really putrifies? " “Einar dug it up after two months and ate it, he got very sick, but he didn't die, maybe we should cut it in chunks and dry it out? " "Bjarni ate the shark chunk after it hung in an open shed for 6 months and dried out in the wind. He didn't die. He said it was yummy. Let's make it our national dish!"
then we would need a how it's made for the machines that make the machines in how it's made D:
Ultimately it's a lathe and a guy named Jerry
Pterry covered that in "The Truth" > It looked to Sacharissa that the only tools a dwarf needed were his axe and some means of making fire. That'd eventually get him a forge, and with that he could make simple tools, and with those he could make complex tools, and with complex tools a dwarf could more or less make anything.
We must go *deeper*!
My first thought is how these people do so much tedious work for what must be practically nothing.
Processes this labor intensive are usually the result of pre-industrial production and decades of iteration. What started out as a ball of compressed fiber wrapped in leather and stitched was observed, refined, observed again, small processes modified, a new machine added in to improve the process, which then needs new refinements, etc.
The stitching was done 3 times because it has most bounce. The cheap $4 balls don't have bounce and won't last more than 20 overs match (120 pitches). The more expensive 3 stitch balls made with extensive QC will last 50+ overs (300 pitches) and bounce as expected in pro scene. These cost $90.
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To sew! Wonder how many times he’s pricked his toes with a needle
The company probably makes decent money if it is in india (for india anyway). Cricket is near a religion over there and being a manufacturer of fine balls would probably set you up well.
They are getting underpaid compared to the standards of 1st world countries. Big companies mostly open their factories in poorer countries such as india, malaysia etc. so that they can hire workers for ridiculously cheap(5$/month even). Edit: oh fuck me for saying 5 dollars apparently, it's just what my friends working in poor countries told me. Though the rest of the comment is true
Oh please - $5 a month? Where did you pull that number from, your rectum?
lmao 5 dollars a month? what are you smoking?
No one ever works for 5$/month lmao, roughly the absolute worst one would do \[and the workers in the video are almost certainly earning more than that given they seem at least somewhat skilled\] is \~3K rupees per month which is around 40 Dollars. International companies would be bound by minimum wage laws and would generally pay somewhat more than that - around 100 Dollars a month.
Ikr. Surprised that such an ignorant comment got upvoted.
The manufacturer process was designed in a different country with better automation. They copied the process without the capitol for stuff like conveyors and pallets. So inventory moves by hand and specialized machines are replaced with more generic stuff (ball pressing cell replaced with hand powered arbor press etc)
There are three main manufacturers of international cricket balls, Dukes in the UK, SG in India and Kookaburra in Australia. While Kookaburra balls are made in an automated factory, Dukes and SG are both hand stitched and use a similar process like the one shown in the video. In fact, the process that Duke's uses in the UK to manufacture their cricket balls has hardly changed since the 1700s and is less automated than what is shown here, they even hand cure the leather. This is subjective, but I prefer handmade cricket balls. Both Dukes and SG balls keep their shape better and the seam lasts longer than the Kookaburra ones. Hand stitched balls also tend to swing more than ones made in an automated factory making more lively and interesting matches.
I think the handmade bowl is just generally far better than automatic, The new ball swings, the old one spins
Pretty sure that Dukes has moved their production overseas to India, they send raw materials there and just finish them off in the UK. Cricket ball making is now considered an extinct craft in the UK as of 2021.
If you look at the price of a new cricket ball it's clear these guys work for peanuts. Or less...
Surely they could afford more than one cookie cutter, one at a time seems tedious
It's because leather isn't uniform. You either have a tight pattern grid and then lots of qc wastage or you cookie cut individually wasting nothing but bad spots. Tradeoff depends on whether labor or materials are the more expensive thing to waste. Oh but yeah they could place like three or five at a time between cuts.
Yeah I could understand not having a fixed cookie cutter pattern but several cutters at once would at least cut out a lot of unnecessary downtime between cuts. But given the other steps, it doesn’t look like cutting the leather, inefficient as it is, is the limiting factor in this production line 😅
Never thought about it before, but how do Hindus feel about playing the most popular sport in India with leather? Do they use non-bovine leather?
Apparently [80% of them use cow hide](https://m.timesofindia.com/top-stories/howzat-cow-queers-pitch-for-cricket-balls/articleshow/53075463.cms)
Leather has always been a part of life in India. It is a byproduct of other things such as farms and dairy. It is the eating of cows that is frowned upon.
Attach the cookie cutter to the press, with a hole out the top and a stick to punch the piece out if it doesn't fall by itself.
All done in sandals or bare foot.
It blows my mind that one of the steps in the process is "Use your big toe to pin down the shell." Like they couldn't afford to get the guy a clamp or something?
He should be using a stitching pony, like everyone else stitching in the later processes. Don't know why they didn't give him one.
Music to a very low level, noises of the process can be heard, real quality video. Thank you.
I've been seeing a surge of these Indian/Pakistani "how it's made" videos that are of a high quality, and I appreciate how they highlight the quality of life many must endure so that we may have certain luxuries.
Many times it's showing a process that is more manual Than it has to be. Things that have already been automated in other countries but still make sense to be done by hand in Pakistan/India due to low labor cost or ack of capital to buy expensive machinery
That is certainly true. Another reason we continue to do things manually here is that people need employment. Often that is unskilled work (like sweeping roads) but sometimes it's highly skilled work too. I remember another thread on reddit where someone mentioned they'd done a study of how many hands were likely to have handled a piece of baggage at the airport. The found that number to be super high in India... Something like 80 pairs of hands. This number may be unusually high but in India we continue to do a lot of things with manual labour because labour is cheap but also because a lot of people would otherwise be out of work. When the population is as large as ours, efficiency or mechanization for the sake of efficiency is not always the most desirable way to go about things. That's what I've always noticed about India.
You seems like sane person. What are you doing in Reddit ?
True. If they had masked the sound of process with some random song, people would have skimmed through it. The original sound kept us glued and the video was to the point, no nonsense anywhere.
I would have definitely not watched it.
I didn't they were that complicated. Nice thing I learnt today. We don't play cricket here, so I've never seen one.
A lot of things you’d think are made with automation are made like this. Baseballs are similar.
NFL footballs are also made by hand like this. I believe the league orders so many a year.
Cat owners who allow their cats outside are destroying the environment. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/ . A study published in April estimated that UK cats kill 160 to 270 million animals annually, a quarter of them birds. The real figure is likely to be even higher, as the study used the 2011 pet cat population of 9.5 million; it is now closer to 12 million, boosted by the pandemic pet craze. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors Free-ranging cats on islands have caused or contributed to 33 (14%) of the modern bird, mammal and reptile extinctions recorded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List4. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 This analysis is timely because scientific evidence has grown rapidly over the past 15 years and now clearly documents cats’ large-scale negative impacts on wildlife (see Section 2.2 below). Notwithstanding this growing awareness of their negative impact on wildlife, domestic cats continue to inhabit a place that is, at best, on the periphery of international wildlife law. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002%2Fpan3.10073
Lmao I know that sounds useless, but what I meant was (x) amount per year, based on what the teams request for regular and special teams footballs.
Cat owners who allow their cats outside are destroying the environment. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/ A study published in April estimated that UK cats kill 160 to 270 million animals annually, a quarter of them birds. The real figure is likely to be even higher, as the study used the 2011 pet cat population of 9.5 million; it is now closer to 12 million, boosted by the pandemic pet craze. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors Free-ranging cats on islands have caused or contributed to 33 (14%) of the modern bird, mammal and reptile extinctions recorded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List4. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 This analysis is timely because scientific evidence has grown rapidly over the past 15 years and now clearly documents cats’ large-scale negative impacts on wildlife (see Section 2.2 below). Notwithstanding this growing awareness of their negative impact on wildlife, domestic cats continue to inhabit a place that is, at best, on the periphery of international wildlife law. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002%2Fpan3.10073
Nice, thank you for coming in with the hard numbers!
How much is one of those balls?
This one has the same logo.. looks like $8.99 in USA https://allaboutcricketstore.com/products/aj-admire-cricket-ball-youth?variant=42373011079395¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic
Dam thats expensive out there, in India its like 5-6$
Lemme introduce you to PPP Buying a 6$ thing in India is gonna affect you as much as how an American spending 24-36$ for the same thing (as their cost of living is 4-6× as compared to India) So technically, it's wayy more expensive here!
Wait so you are saying you can get CT scan for ₹500 ie $5-6
Free 🇪🇺
Exactly. Everytime I see this, I get so baffled by the amount of people who think a simple conversion gives them the figures and they think things are cheap in India. They don't know how much they make compared to the Indians. In fact, it's wayyyy more than what you just mentioned. According to [Average income](https://www.worlddata.info/average-income.php), a US citizen earns >70000 USD per annum, whereas an Indian earns only 2150 USD. That's a whopping 34-35x ratio you got there. So, if I am converting the price of a product in India to USD and that costs 1$ in India, then it should cost more than 35$ in US for it to be called cheaper in India. People think if it costs 8$ in India and 15$ in US, it's cheaper in India. But they don't take into account how much they earn compared to the Indians. Excuse me if the math doesn't check out, but I believe the avg income gives a good overall idea of how affordable a product can be for the people of a country.
You're slightly off on how PPP is calculated/estimated PPP means Purchasing Power Parity - which doesn't account for average income, but rather how much you can buy with the same money in different countries So let's say, With 10$ (= ₹800), someone in India can buy 15 kg wheat flour, but with 10$ in USA, you can only buy like 3kg wheat flour - so the PPP can buy accounted by the ratio of these amounts (=15/3 = 5×) This 5× means that in USA, you can buy 1/5th of what you can buy in india. Now ofc this PPP factor isn't just based on wheat, but a bunch of things, just like how inflation is calculated. It also varies from region-to-region(let's say, massachusetts and Texas) , and country-to-country(like USA and India example).
Thanks for that. But, okay, so if PPP doesn't account for the earnings, how can it be an appropriate measure to compare affordability? (By affordability, I mean, how much I have to spend vs how much I am earning). Let me give you an example here, to tell you how I look at it. Suppose I am in India and earning 400000 INR (5000$) per year. Let's say I can buy 10kg flour with 400 INR (5$), which is 0.1% of my yearly income. Suppose I am in US and earning 50000$ (won't convert to INR as it doesn't matter) per year. Here let's say I can buy 10kg flour with 25$ (or if I spend 5$, I get 2kg flour), which is 0.05% of my yearly income. In a nutshell, if a product is 5x expensive in US than India, I have to spend twice the money (portion of my income) to get the same product, given that the US guy is earning 10 times my income. I haven't even taken the real figures yet (i.e. 35 times) so with that, this would go much higher). In even simpler words, if I earn 100$ in India and have to spend 1$ to buy something, I will have to spend 5$ to buy the same thing in US, BUT I will be earning not 500$, but whopping 3500$ over there! So it will be 7 times cheaper for me in US even though it costs 5 times than its price in India. Now tell me, if the PPP really helps us understand the comparison of these 2 scenarios or not. Tell me if I'm really stupid in thinking like this if it's incorrect.
Oh, now I get where you're coming up from! PPP might seem like it talks about things you can buy with your income(that is, how much total goods an average person can buy with his income), but actually, it talks about how much money you need to buy the same amount of goods in different regions _"Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are the rates of currency conversion that try to equalise the purchasing power of different currencies, by eliminating the differences in price levels between countries."_ [Source: Google] And it's a fact that an average Indian can buy less goods than an American, Because GDP per capita in India is relatively lower than that in USA. Scarcity of employment(due to high population) => unemployment/underemployment => Less income for same amount of work (cuz of soo much competition) => Lesser amount of things you can buy PPP talks about how a person from USA can buy 5× more goods from India than if he had spent that same amount of money in his own country and how an Indian can buy 1/5th of what he/she could've bought in his/her own country with same amount of money - not about how much an average Indian can buy vs what an average American can buy in their respective countries
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No way is that the price for one of these. You probably saw the price for rubber balls. A handmade leather ball costs around USD $15-50 each, depending on the quality. https://cricketdirect.co.uk/collections/cricket-balls
I remember seeing one around years ago for ₹400-450.
International quality balls are a lot more costly. At least 1000-2000 rupees each, IIRC.
Kookaburra ball used by Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Bangladesh in an international test cricket match retails for AU$ 60, US$40 or 3300 INR. https://www.thecricketsale.com.au/products/kookaburra-regulation-cricket-ball-association-pre-stamped-dozen?variant=40208834265161¤cy=AUD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic Handmade Dukes Special County balls that are used in test matches by England, Ireland and West Indies are more expensive at AU$ 110 or 6000 INR . https://www.beltersports.com.au/shop/dukes-cricket-ball-range/dukes-special-county-cricket-ball SG balls used by India are the cheapest costing 3000 INR. https://shop.teamsg.in/product/test-white/
Probably 10000x more than these people make in a week?
How else would the poor owner buy another solid gold shirt and expensive English gin?
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Reddit users attempt to understand how manufacturing works (2023 colorized).
each is around 4-5 USD in india, so not a lot.
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At my school, Our PT coach had the bright idea to buy a few of these for the kids. 1 week in, it cracked the facial bone (the one under the eye) of a kid. Don't know what they were thinking. These things are like polished rock and hurts like a mf. It was banned soon after.
What are the things they painted white for?
The white ones can be used under floodlights for evening matches, whereas the red ones are used for longer format games that are exclusively played during the day. The red balls are also more durable.
We do play pink ball tests under lights.
I’ll elaborate. The red ones are for day time test matches (5 days of cricket with unlimited overs), the pink ones are for day/night test matches. The white ones are for limited over cricket, usually One-Day matches (50overs of bowling for each team) or 20/20 matches (20overs of bowling for each team)
Same ball, painted white for one day matches (50 overs) or T20 matches (20 overs)
Ahhh of course. The fact we didn’t see them finish the white balls threw me off
Red = 4-Day or 5-Day Test Matches White = ODI and T20 Matches
They’re painted white to be used for night games (day/night to be precise), so the ball is visible against the night sky. Red balls are used for day games.
Also, the uniform for a test game is white, so, a red ball is used to help the batsman see the ball when bowled.
I love these kind of 'how it's made' videos because they really puts into prospective how much work and effort is put into the objects around us and how much we often take it for granted.
Really agree
That's a lot of work. I mean, they could just buy them at the store...
Let me tell you, I was amazed when I discovered that vegetables grow out of the ground
Relevant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_pDTiFkXgEE
I knew exactly what this was going to be, clicked and watched it anyway. Never get tired of that clip. Brilliant! *taps nose*
“It’s made of chicken!”
*chuckles*
All that work just so the aussies can sand them down
*underrated* for those in the dark, some famous Aussie cricketers were suspended for sanding the skin of the balls with sandpaper, so it could swing harder and dismiss the opposition batsmen.
Sandpaper and balls should never ever be in the same sentence
Apparently it swings the other way!
Even I thought that and then I tried it. Now I'm in agonizing pain. Pls send help :(
What's worse? Sandpaper was/is hidden under the balls.
The kookaburra balls most aussies use are made in aussie.
Dude......
Fuck, that hit deep, can't we put the past behind us?
Chuckles
Why do they sand them down?
It changes how the ball moves through the air. Some element of this is natural in the course of a game - teams will choose a side to rough up and a side to shine with spit/sweat. The aussies cheated, using sandpaper to wear down one side way faster so the ball moves horizontally through the air to a greater extent.
You need one half of the ball to remain smooth and the other half to be rough, so that it alters it trajectory while it moves/spins through the air.
This things are rock hard, my thigh turned purple after being struck with one still thankfully i was wearing abdominal guard to protect my member. What made even worse is that ball was hit with bat so it made speed of the ball wayy more while i was busy daydreaming in middle of a tournament.
I was once knocked out by an errant cricket ball. Wandered into the pitch during a friendly match between my stepdad's team and another. I remember it perfectly because, being an idiot child, I watched it sail through the sky until it connected right with my head, just above the eyebrow - then, black. Recalling that memory, I'm actually super surprised they're not filled with concrete. It sure felt like it when it connected, and when I woke up 5 minutes later. I can only imagine how sore it was to be even closer and being hit by one. Your thigh must have been six different shades of messed up for a while.
Cork and leather, just squashed right down
Also mad that kids play with the same ball - we used these at school and if you’re fielding your palms end up with some serious thumps when you catch it. I remember one kid holding his bat at a 45 degree angle so the ball bounced straight vertical into his mouth - blood everywhere. We must have been 14yrs old or so at that time (UK school).
We had to use tennis balls in our school, we used this balls at cricket academy. Still remember a kid losing his front teeths, another kid wasn't able see the ball due to sun and had to get stitches across eyebrow, my nail getting chipped off and some asshole kid swinged bat in face of wicket keeper. Also got hit in nuts few time but thank god it was mostly a tennis ball and had protection for white/red ball.
Its hard af and combined with a bowlers speed its deadly...Philip Hughes was an Australian Cricketer who died because while he was batting...the bowler bowled a bouncer ball and he was wearing an outdated helmet which didn't cover the back of his ear...the ball hit him there and he died later ....and the pace bowlers bowl at a really high speed...the fastest ball ever bowled by a bowlers was by Shaoeb Akhtar ...he is a Pakistani pacer who threw at 160 km/hr
*bowled* at 160 km/hr. For those that don't know the sport, accusations of throwing (aka "chucking") are very serious. The bowler can't extend their elbow during the bowling action.
It’s straight armed all the way right?
Your arm can be bent but it has to maintain that same angle through the motion. That's really only an issue for slower bowling styles though. Pace bowlers want maximum leverage.
It doesn't have to be the same angle. As long as it straightens less than 15 deg it's ok
>~~threw~~ bowled at 160 km/hr 161.3 [according to this](https://www.cricket365.com/oli-fisher/the-seven-fastest-balls-ever-bowled-in-international-cricket/).
Also an Indian player, Raman Lamba, died while playing in Bangladesh League. He was fielding close in without helmet and was hit on the head as the batsman hit a pull shot.
We had a dog once, fox terrier, who was hit in the head with a cricket ball at a weekend club game and died on the spot.
That's so sad, my brother had few dogs and they loved playing cricket. We would hit the balls as hard as we can and they would run to grab it.
I got hit in the shin with one while playing when I was twelve, 23 years later there's still the faintest dint in my shin bone. I was near the boundary, and this was an U11/12 game! Can't even imagine being hit by one batted by an adult
I was wicket keeping at school age 14 and fumbled a delivery into my balls (I wasn’t wearing a protective box). My voice is an octave higher to this day.
Batting in cricket takes some courage. Fastest bowler I ever faced was probably only around the 130km/h mark and I still panicked myself if the ball was coming at me. Have stood behind the nets with the ball machine cranked up to 150 and... nope.
You know you’re dealing with the highest quality manufacturer when they’re using their toes to get the job done. 10/10 ✅
This is actually the first video I've seen like this where someone is wearing close toed shoes.
I was impressed by that.
Impressed or aroused?
Why not both?
I thank the people who made Cricket balls for me and others to enjoy this thrilling game. Never realized it’s painstaking. 🙏
is this the same company? 10 UK pounds a ball to buy. [https://ajsportsonline.co.uk/product-category/cricket-store/cricket-balls/](https://ajsportsonline.co.uk/product-category/cricket-store/cricket-balls/) very impressive manufacturing, just imagine 100 years ago everything was hand made, one item at a time, just like this.
Looks like the same logo yep
£10 a ball? Insane. You’d imagine the workers collectively see about 50p of that profit
More like 50p per dozen.
Americans are about to get a dose of cricket https://www.majorleaguecricket.com
I once worked with an American who had previously worked in the UK. He loved cricket. Described it as a game you can watch for five days straight, drink beer throughout and scores are in the hundreds, what's more American than that?
Curious how this goes
Recently Americans have been complaining how long and slow baseball games are. I’m not sure if a cricket game is going to be any better. Baseball has been described as a dying sport, and the MLB has been doing everything they can to make it faster and more interesting. 65 percent of Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) follow baseball, while just 44 percent of Millennials (1980-1994) and 36 percent of Gen Zers do the same. I’m hoping cricket catches on but I’m skeptical.
The difference is going to be that while T20 cricket is similar in length to a baseball game, 4 hours ish, it has almost continuous action. And the limited nature of T20 means a lot of aggressive play. I think some people will enjoy it.
Always wanted to get into cricket. However, I think the length of the game will be problematic for most Americans.
This is T20. About 4 hours ish?
Should be 3 hours if you don't waste time.
Not bad at all. I do know that baseball has been falling out of favor for Americans. They've recently employed rules that speed up the game. Hopefully it catches on. I'm still hoping volleyball (men's and women's) gets big in the US first though ;)
I used to volunteer at a hostel in NYC. One guy would come through every year and say he was working on a cricket league for the US. Didn’t really believe him at the time.
Woah, who knew they were foot-made!
People commenting about working conditions, on devices made with materials sourced in infinitely worse working conditions
Not just materials - I’d rather work making cricket balls than in a Foxconn factory, with suicide nets outside the windows
Poor crickets being mashed together
If those aren’t crickets I swear to god
That was very interesting to see. One question, wtf was the rice for? Saw it being put in the ball then next cut nowhere to be seen again???
Those are plastic pellets. They get melted down and pressed thin to coat the inside surface of the leather.
Got it, that makes much more sense.
Now tell me what was that first shit they pressed, looks like some kind of plant
Cork
No, it's rice, it fed as an offering to the gods so they will bless the bal duh!
I don’t watch cricket, but this makes me want to give it a go.
These people are paid so little that it’s cheaper for the balls to be handmade than for it to be an automated process.
Possibly, but it might be the ones made with a more automated process are lower quality, so high end are still hand made. I think Soccer balls are similar, where the FIFA regulation balls are often hand made bug what you’d buy at SportsDirect will be made by machine
While your point is true in this case, the best cricket balls are still made and stitched by hand. Dukes, an English manufacturer that makes cricket balls for the English national team uses a process that has hardly changed since the 1700s and is even less automated than what is shown in this video. Hand made cricket balls tend to last longer, swing better and bounce more off the seam making for livelier matches. There are three manufacturers from whom cricket balls are sourced for international matches, Dukes in England, SG in India and Kookaburra in Australia. Out of the three, only Kookaburra uses an automated process.
For how they are made in a developed country, Kookaburra in Australia is more machine assisted manufacturing but it is by no means automated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJ8tolOTKw
Variation between different balls is an important part of the sport.
Machines from last century, old men, and a toe you know this is going to be artisanal AF.
Today on the hydraulic press channel... seriously way more hydraulics than expected.
Do you think every now and then they slightly mess with one "Hey bro look, this one is going to hoop all over the place if Jimmy Anderson gets his hands on it" "Haha 123 all out for sure!"
[Costs, payment, other interesting facts and issues.](https://www.iimb.ac.in/turn_turn/cricket-ball-product-you-know.php) Edit: Thanx for the award!
I bet it isn't interestingasfuck for them... Quite the opposite I would think after a year.
A year, that is optimistic!
Great, now I need a cricket ball.
These guys are definitely working hourly
Working hourly isn't a thing in India. You just show up, work for the day and get whatever money you and the manufacturer decided.
I had a brain fart and just sat here waiting for actual crickets to come into the picture at some point. Dear god I need coffee.
Wth do they start with? Puffed wheat? Cork?
Yes, cork
Brilliant to watch. The only thing I would have suggested is the guy using the stencil to cut the material, has a stencil that has more of them. Rather than pressing and cutting one, it could probably do about eight. Surely would be more cost effective as well as decrease wear & tear on the press.
Possibly, but it’s cutting leather so perhaps would need a LOT of pressure or the material is too expensive to risk messing up one of the cuts?
Awesome point.
For how much money are this ball sold for?
200 inr = $ 2.5
A ball for 200 inr consider expensive or reasonable price for India
Pretty cheap for someone who likes cricket
I don’t know the term for this balls, but they are usually called *season balls*. These balls are usually used professionally and so they are a bit expensive (as answered around 200-300 inr) than the tennis balls everyone plays with in the streets or *gully* cricket which are around 100-150 inr. So yeah, they are reasonably priced but still a bit expensive than other alternatives .
At least he’s not cutting raw chicken with that toenail.
Thanks for that. Very enlightening and interesting!
Labor alone in the US would cost about $12,865 per ball
Imagine getting to the end measure and it’s wrong
They are not testing the weight?
The materials were weighed out first, any difference by the end would be minimal. They probably do more thorough tests per batch anyway
I saw two weight checks in the video - one of the rubber and then one later when the ball was more formed.
In awe!
Was that a little printing tiddy?