Post by tiptoes on Jul 25, 2023 9:02:40 GMT
This fiasco is a real spoiler for the game as much as continuous bouncing of a ball before serving is in tennis, reset scrums in rugby and VAR in football. The ICC have no interest in punishing teams that pursue this lazy gamesmanship but there might be a relatively easy solution without having to make players toil a bit harder.
I can't claim to be the inspiration behind this idea but until 1974 or thereabouts the Australians played 8 ball overs. With much of the delays coming between overs, rather than during them, if you reduced the amount of overs there would be fewer delays but the crowd would see more balls bowled during the day, so the expected total of 540 in the three 2 hour sessions might be completed within that time scale without always overrunning (yet still often not reaching the target).
Seems a pretty easy compromise.
I can't claim to be the inspiration behind this idea but until 1974 or thereabouts the Australians played 8 ball overs. With much of the delays coming between overs, rather than during them, if you reduced the amount of overs there would be fewer delays but the crowd would see more balls bowled during the day, so the expected total of 540 in the three 2 hour sessions might be completed within that time scale without always overrunning (yet still often not reaching the target).
Seems a pretty easy compromise.
