ICC to discuss use of glue on cricket pitches

Dubai, May 30: The newly constituted International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket committee is to discuss host of issue including the use of glue on cricket pitches, ball-tampering, one-day regulations, volume of cricket and role of television umpire.

Following the use of glue on pitches in Britain, New Zealand and India, the committee has been asked to discuss the principle of using adhesives in the preparation of pitches. It has also been asked to determine a policy concerning its use for international matches.

The new constituted body will be chaired by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar and includes former Australia captain Mark Taylor, Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene and former West Indies great Michael Holding. They will be meeting Wednesday.

It also features Umpire of the Year Simon Taufel, chief ICC match referee and Ranjan Madugalle, Scotland captain Craig Wright and Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody.

The new structure is designed to be representative of all interests in the modern game and replaces the previous committee, which was made up of the nominated representatives from each of the full members and leading associates of the ICC.

The issue of ball tampering has assumed prime importance following the events at the Test match in August last year when the umpires awarded the match to England on the grounds of Pakistan's refusal to play after it was accused of tampering with the ball.

The committee has been asked to consider whether, in future, action should be taken against the captain and person responsible for ball tampering or just the person responsible and whether it is necessary to legislate to make it compulsory for umpires to first warn a captain before taking action.

They are likely to decipher if any amendments are required in defining ball tampering as contained in the laws or to the guidelines relating to this offence as set out in the ICC Code of Conduct.

Besides the committee will also discuss power-plays, over rates, ball changes, a free-hit for batsmen following a front-foot, no-ball and the size of boundaries.

The regulations that allow on-field umpires to consult the TV officials on the subject of clean catches are also likely to come up in the meeting.

Any such amendment would allow the on-field umpires to consult with the TV umpire on decisions relating to catches they were unsure about and also allow the TV umpire to initiate contact.

The committee will also be asked to consider whether it should recommend a trial run for the use of player appeals to the TV umpire at this year's ICC Twenty20 World Championships if such a system, currently being under experimented in the domestic one-day cricket in England, proves successful.

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i don't know,whats on ICC's mind........every time they come up with such stupid ideas like these..........well i think none of these ideas will work 4 cricket world and ICC as well

What? Using glue on cricket pitches... Are you kidding with me? Whats the purpose of it? Perhaps, they want to reduce the speed of Akhtar (by the way he breaks down quite often so need to do that).
I think they should use technology for LBW's/catches however the above mentioned idea of glue doesn't seems to be promising.

Any one else tell me what could be the possible use of it (in cricket pitches )?

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well insted of than i think ICC need to do something about LBW dics. becouse this is really crushal dic. sometimes and umpire many times gets wrong soo they should prefer for 3rd umpire too just like runout one

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I think ICC wants to use glue on pitch so that some stupid player can not dig it up with his spikes when he thniks no one is watching..

you mean the third umpire with the Hawk eye method? I saw a couple of times this method was not 100% right

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its supposed to be like 95% or something and thats a lot better then some of the umpires....

yeah you're right, but it should only be for tough decision.

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