Goodbye to runners

[Spark]

ICC board meeting: No runners in international cricket | Cricket News | Cricinfo ICC Site | ESPN Cricinfo

A lot of people here will like this, I know. I guess it was kinda getting silly in the last year, people were starting to get runners because they were just too ****ing lazy to run.

 

[vcs]

Jesse Ryder dislikes this.

 

[centurymaker]

Awesome!!

 

[Cevno]

So injured batsman can't bat now unless they are hitting boundaries?

A bit unfair in case of injuries picked up in matches. Puts more down to luck.

using a new ball from each end in one-dayers

So 2 different balls in ODI's?

 

[biased indian]

May be time for Super sub to come back

 

[centurymaker]

So injured batsman can't bat now unless they are hitting boundaries?

A bit unfair in case of injuries picked up in matches. Puts more down to luck.



So 2 different balls in ODI's?

Hard luck.

 

[zaremba]

Don't see the need for this. If there's abuse of the system of allowing runners then stop the abuse, don't scrap the system.

 

[Cevno]

Awta.

Can't stop the system because of abuse.Maybe don't allow runners for Cramps etc...

Too unfair in case of real injuries.

 

[biased indian]

So 2 different balls in ODI's?

CEC agreed with the ICC Cricket Committee's recommendations for the further enhancement of international 50-over cricket with the restriction of the elective powerplays to between the 16th and 40th overs of each innings and also to the use of two new balls per innings – one from each end. This will come into effect from 1 October.

 

[Spikey]

Don't see the need for this. If there's abuse of the system of allowing runners then stop the abuse, don't scrap the system.

yep

 

[GIMH]

Don't see the need for this. If there's abuse of the system of allowing runners then stop the abuse, don't scrap the system.

This. It's like, I know a few people who falsely claim Disability Benefit. Let's stop all Disability Benefits to teach them a lesson!

 

[fredfertang]

Terrible decision that I sincerely hope the Executive Board don't ratify - by all means clamp down on the abuses of the system, but don't rob future generations of the oportunity to watch the sort of innings Gordon Greenidge used to play on one leg

 

[Cevno]

CEC agreed with the ICC Cricket Committee's recommendations for the further enhancement of international 50-over cricket with the restriction of the elective powerplays to between the 16th and 40th overs of each innings and also to the use of two new balls per innings – one from each end. This will come into effect from 1 October.

So one bowler will start with one ball and one with another?
Wtf?

 

[weldone]

I shall go against what seems to be the general consensus here, and say that I agree with disallowing runners for batsmen. Running between the wickets is an integral part of batting. Bowling is more demanding physically than batting as it is. Do we see an injured bowler being carried by a fielder on his shoulder to the crease through his run-up before he bowls the delivery? Then why should a batsman enjoy such priviledges? I've always wondered that allowing runners for batsmen favors the contest between bat and ball to one side. Injured bowlers can't bowl if they can't run, then why should injured batsmen be allowed to bat if they can't run?

However, it's obvious that the reason for which ICC has taken this decision is vastly different from the reason I think it should have happened.

 

[GIMH]

If a bowler isn't fit enough to bowl, then someone else bowls the overs.

If a batsman injures himself and can no longer run, the team is effectively penalised through the loss of a wicket.

They are not comparable.

 

[weldone]

Playing with 3 frontline bowlers is tougher than playing with 10 batsmen IMO.

 

[aussie tragic]

If a bowler isn't fit enough to bowl, then someone else bowls the overs.

If a batsman injures himself and can no longer run, the team is effectively penalised through the loss of a wicket.

They are not comparable.

I sort of agree...however you could also argue that remaining bowlers have to work harder and bowl more to cover the loss, so remaining batsmen also have to work harder as well....

 

[biased indian]

So one bowler will start with one ball and one with another?
Wtf?

the same was in use during 92 world cup

 

[Cevno]

Is weird though.
What will that achieve other than eliminate reverse swing mostly?

 

[centurymaker]

Is weird though.
What will that achieve other than eliminate reverse swing mostly?

new ball swing will last for twice as long.