Wednesday, February 25, 2009

NEW CRICKET RULE-umpire decision can be contested

Now the cricket players in the field are going to have an great advantage of asking Tv umpires to review the decision made by umpires in the field,either the fielding team captain or batsman can make an appeal to the umpires to ask third umpire.If the Tv umpire says that the decision is wright then the players should proceed accordingly on the other hand if he changes the decision then it will be an advantage for the team which had made the appeal.The team can make use of this advantage only 3 times but if in any of those case,if that particular team which had made the appeal got it wright then they will have an option of one more appeal.This rule was framed by ICC in march of this year and they decided to implement it during upcoming southafrica vs england series,but due to some legal problem with those particular board regarding this rule they have decided to implement it in India vs srilanka series.The player can make the appeal by making 'T' symbol.This rule is applicable to all kind of dismissals except for the 'timed out' format where the batsman is out if he takes too long time to come to the crease.This rule is going to put an additional pressure on the umpires but on the other hand going to provide advantage to the players.

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