Kookaburra sport
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| legal form | Propriety Limited |
| founding | 1890 |
| Seat | Moorabbin , Victoria , Australia |
| management | Rob Elliot |
| Branch | Sporting goods manufacturer |
| Website | kookaburra.biz |
Kookaburra Sport is an Australian sporting goods manufacturer specializing in cricket and hockey . The company is named after the English name for the Jägerlieste , a genus of birds mainly native to Australia. In international cricket, the company is now the main supplier of cricket balls and, after Puma (bats, knee pads, gloves and helmets) and Slazenger (textiles), is one of the leading three manufacturers of sporting goods for cricket as a whole, the second most popular spectator sport in the world after football .
The company is also a world leader in hockey balls. Kookaburra is the official supplier of the Australian national teams and the "Dimple Hockey Ball" is the only game ball approved by the International Hockey Federation for international competitions.
Company history and products
The company was founded in 1890 by Alfred Grace Thompson AG Thompson Pty Ltd founded. A saddler by trade , he specialized in the manufacture of cricket balls when he saw his livelihood endangered by the spread of the automobile.
In the mid-1980s, the company expanded its range of cricket equipment to include clothing, cricket bats, shoes and protective equipment such as pads (leg guards) and gloves. Kookaburra is best known for its cricket balls, which have a particularly pronounced central seam and therefore jump off irregularly when they hit the playing field, which the bowler prefers to the batsman . The number and design of the central seams is decisive for the aerodynamic properties of a cricket ball.
Eight out of ten national teams participating in Test Cricket use kookaburra balls for their internationals: Australia , Bangladesh , New Zealand , Pakistan , Zimbabwe , Sri Lanka , South Africa and the West Indies . Only England and India still use balls from their own manufacturers. The specification of the Kookaburra red test cricket ball has remained unchanged since 1977 (the Centenary Test ). All One-Day Internationals and all Twenty20 games worldwide are played with the official white Kookaburra ball.
In 2002 the company built a new production facility in Moorabbin near Melbourne for around 70 employees. In Great Britain, Kookaburra acquired the 200-year-old cricket ball manufacturer Alfred Reader & Co Ltd with an additional 60 employees, making it the largest cricket ball and hockey ball manufacturer in the world.
Kookaburra today
In addition to Australia, Kookaburra has offices in the main cricket-playing countries: Great Britain , New Zealand , South Africa , Pakistan and India . The company sponsors a youth cricket tournament, the Kookaburra Cup, and has advertising deals with many well-known international players such as Australian captain Ricky Ponting .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cricket Industry . In: “Economy Watch”, Stanley St Labs, Singapore.
- ↑ a b Firoz Alam, Roger La Brooy, Aleksandar Subic and Simon Watkins: Aerodynamics Of Cricket Ball-An Effect Of Seams . In: Margaret Estivalet and Pierre Brisson (eds.): "The Engineering of Sport", Vol. 7. Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-2-287-99053-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-2-287-99054- 0_41 .
- ^ Official Website of Hockey Australia
- ^ Julia Hickey: Understanding Cricket . Coachwise, 2006, ISBN 1905540086 , p. 21.
- ^ Sanjay Rajan: India opens door to Kookaburra balls in tests . In: “Rediff India Abroad” of March 9, 2006.
- ↑ Phil Lutton: Don't blame the ball: Kooka boss . In: Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 2007.
- ↑ Kookaburra History on the company website. (Retrieved October 28, 2009.)