I do think one issue needs to be addressed, the issue of "Umpire's Call".
I don't have the answer, but at the moment the implementation of that rule is deciding games. It's had the counter-intuitive effect of amplifying the umpires subjectivity.
Like AFL goal reviews, it's another example of a technology that isn't quite right, and it's changed the sport due to external pressures from media and gambling.
But I admit I am biased, I don't like any rules that cannot be implemented at lower levels of the sport, I want all players at all levels playing to the same set of conditions. Otherwise, just like AFL is to suburban football, International cricket quickly becomes a different sport to domestic cricket. I primarily blame gambling, it's the root driver of the big money and things like the IPL!
I don't have the answer, but at the moment the implementation of that rule is deciding games. It's had the counter-intuitive effect of amplifying the umpires subjectivity.
Like AFL goal reviews, it's another example of a technology that isn't quite right, and it's changed the sport due to external pressures from media and gambling.
But I admit I am biased, I don't like any rules that cannot be implemented at lower levels of the sport, I want all players at all levels playing to the same set of conditions. Otherwise, just like AFL is to suburban football, International cricket quickly becomes a different sport to domestic cricket. I primarily blame gambling, it's the root driver of the big money and things like the IPL!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"