The thickness of bats is one of the main reasons for batsmen enjoying an unfair advantage over the bowlers. The trend of high scores, especially in one-day international cricket, causing an imbalance between bat and ball has been an area of concern for the ICC. The committee also agreed on minimum standards for the use of DRS in international cricket, with mandatory use of ball-tracking and edge-detection technology. From October 1, though, the top-ups will stop.ĭRS will now be used in Twenty20 internationals as well. At the 80-over mark, the reviews are reset to two till the end of the innings.
So if Team A has two reviews available and the captain uses one and if they are not successful, the team loses a review. As per the current arrangement, each team is allowed two unsuccessful reviews in an innings in a Test for the first 80 overs. Now to balance things out a bit, teams will not have their reviews topped up at the 80-over mark in an innings in a Test match. If technology cannot reach a decisive verdict, then why should the team suffer? Now, the ICC has decided that if a lbw review comes with the verdict of ‘umpire’s call’, then it would not be fair to penalise the team that called for the review. Therefore, the on-field umpire's call is important. Ball-tracking technology can never be 100% in determining whether the ball would have hit the stumps or not, or shaved it. This is the margin of error afforded to the "umpire's call". Therefore, the television umpire would have to uphold the on-field judgment if projections show half the ball hitting a zone that stretches from the outside edge of the off stump to the outside edge of the leg stump. When an LBW decision is reviewed, the benefit of the doubt goes to the on-field umpire’s original decision. What does ‘umpire’s call’ mean? This concept affects leg before wicket (LBW) decisions. Here are the rule changes: DRS and umpire’s callĪ team will not lose a review for when an ‘umpire’s call’ verdict comes into play. It approved all the recommendations made by the ICC Cricket Committee in May, in areas related to bat sizes and the Decision Review System (DRS), to name a few.
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday had approved a series of rule changes in international cricket that will come into effect from October 1, 2017.