Former Australia captain Ian Chappell believes that Test cricket’s image can improve if administrators stop being lenient on over-rates.
Topic: Ian Chappell Asks That ‘Captain Should be Suspended Without Question’ To Improve Over Rates in Test Cricket
It has become a common practice that a day’s play is extended due to teams not bowling the required quota of 90 overs in the allotted time.
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While weather and other external factors may affect the schedule at times, teams are often found guilty of failing to maintain the required rate, resulting in financial penalties and points deductions.
Chappell believes that a captain should be held responsible for his team’s slow over rate and should be suspended if he is found guilty of exceeding the limit.
“While England has done a lot recently to improve the image of Test batting, the worrying DRS, and over-rates that are glacial, need urgent attention.
The umpires do not enforce on-field protocol in this regard, Perhaps because they lack the support of the managers. It is unfair to the mentors, who have been short-changed,” Chappell wrote in his column for ESPN cric info.
“The administrators can compromise and demand that the players bowl 90 overs in six hours, without any cuts. If this target is not achieved, the captain should be suspended without question,” he added.
said Chappell said over rates had been falling for decades and holding extension teams was ‘harmful to the game’. “Over-rates have been declining for decades and yet they are virtually ignored as the focus is on the money-making potential of T20.
The real reason for proposing 90 overs a day is that a team “It’s very possible to bowl that much at this point,” Chappell wrote.
“Under Clive Lloyd, the West Indies advanced the thought that over-rates didn’t make any difference when matches were being won in under the dispensed time.
That argument was flawed. The batting team had six-hour days. I should get a fair number of deliveries, while the frontline bowlers tire at an acceptable rate.
These days, overs are rarely completed even when extra time is allowed – and they are detrimental to the extension game.” He then suggested some changes that could help speed up the process.
“There are many areas of compromise. Managers can eliminate advertisements on site boards, replay potential boundaries, reduce the constant fizzing of drinks and gloves, and eliminate unnecessary mid-pitch chats during overs.
Can,” he wrote. He continued, “They can also revert to the backfoot no-ball rule (without any drag issues), thereby virtually eliminating a boring aspect of the game as well as improving the over rate.
There is no doubt that the better bats of the modern era have created field placement headaches for captains. Yet, the often absurd spread of the field has helped teams either dismiss batsmen or improve over-rates. Not done.”
