On Monday the
International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that for the first time
Front-foot no-ball technology will be used in a global cricket tournament at
the women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. The landing position of the front foot
of bowler after every ball will be monitor by the television umpire and then
the decision about if the bowler oversteps will be conveyed to the on-field
umpires.
ICC general manager Geoff
Allardice said that it is very difficult for empires to detect the no balls
accurately; moreover the percentage of no-ball deliveries is very low, so it is
important to detect them accurately.
ICC decides to use this
technology because in recent years umpires often take a wrong decision about no
ball and they had to call back batsmen. While on the other hand according to
the ICC report TV official is used in recent trials in India and West Indies
for every ball and it gave 100% result through the accurate judgment of 4,717
deliveries.
For the first time this the concept was tried in 2016 in the ODI series between England and Pakistan and
now this technology has been improved significantly and will be used in women’s
T20 World Cup which will be held from February 21 until March 8
Source: THE NEWS
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