After 80 overs have been bowled with a ball (in a Test match), the fielding captain has the option of requesting a new ball. Usually this is a straightforward decision and the captain will request the new ball almost immediately, since a new ball provides better bounce, pace, and movement for the fast bowlers, and so can quickly produce wickets, especially against lower order batsmen.
However, if there are spin bowlers who are performing very well with the old ball, and the pitch is crumbling and more conducive to spin than to pace bowling, the captain may decide to continue with spin bowlers using the old ball. Sometimes, if bowlers are managing to get the old ball reverse swinging, the captain will also keep the old ball and maintain the attack with reverse swing - perhaps alternating with spin at the other end of the pitch.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed.
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