I'm sure they've got loads of left over Kookaburras from last season.
"We've got plenty of stuff in the factories in the subcontinent ready to go, but the airlines are not taking the freight, because there?s a logjam," Dukes owner Dilip Jajodia told the Daily Mail.
The rates have gone up too. A box of 120 cricket balls would be charged normally by airlines at about $5 a kilo. The last quote I got was $15 a kilo. Most of the stuff goes through the Middle East, but if you?ve suddenly got rockets flying around, you?ve got a major problem."
Dukes are made from leather taken from British cows, which is then tanned in Chesterfield. However, the leather is then shipped to South Asia where it's stitched into balls, and then shipped back to the UK. The difficulties in shipping the balls back once they've been stitched together means that Dukes have given each county only 50 per cent of the balls they need for the entire season."
https://www.wisden.com/cricket-news/explained-how-middle-east-war-is-leading-to-shortage-of-dukes-balls-in-england-ahead-of-county-season
