[2] The company is currently owned by Indian businessman Dilip Jajodia, who acquired it in 1987.

The Duke family began hand-manufacturing cricket balls as a cottage industry at Redleaf Hill, Penshurst, Kent, England in 1760 and continuing until 1841.

[4][2] In 1920, Dukes merged with John Wisden and company a manufacturer of cricket bats.

[5][6] In 1999, the company introduced the white ball for that year's Cricket World Cup.

The leather is polished with a synthetic grease with a traditional English Alumtine finish which gives a darker shade to the ball.