ICC To Trial TV Umpires Calling Front-Foot No-Ball

Well, finally, the umpires are all set to be carried out on the front-foot no-balls. Of late, it has become a boon to the game of cricket with umpires failing to give the right decisions regarding the no-ball call. Regarding the same, the Apex body ICC finally started trials on the new scenario.

In what will be a major relief for on-field umpiring, the ICC is set to experiment with TV umpires monitoring front-foot no-balls and taking the shots ball after ball, as opposed to the on-field umpires calling them. The decision comes on the back of a suggestion by The Cricket Committee, which had proposed the ICC to use TV Umpires to call front-foot no-balls.

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The ICC will test the new system in a few selective limited-overs series over the next six months. Hopefully, if the experiment pans out to be a success, on-field umpires could lose the right to call no-balls for overstepping in future.

The third umpire will get the slow-motion video:

The process would be simple. the third umpire gets an instant slow-motion replay of the landing of the bowler’s front foot. In case of a no-ball, the TV Umpire would then communicate it to the on-field umpire, with the latter signalling the call on the field.

“The idea is the third umpire will be presented an image of the front-foot. It will be landing within a few seconds. He would communicate to the on-field umpire that a no-ball has been delivered. So every delivery on the field would be played as a fair delivery until called otherwise,” ICC’s General Manager Geoff Allardice told ESPNcricinfo.

”The footage is shown on a slight delay. It goes to super slo-mo as the foot approaches the point of landing and then it freezes,” Allardice said. The routine works well. With the third umpire judging the no-ball off a picture that is not always shown on the broadcast.”

Well, this would be an interesting aspect to watch out. If the new idea gets success, we can see the game of cricket with fewer flaws by the on-field umpires. The latest idea will certainly decrease the level of pressure on umpires, especially, during those crunch games of any tournament or a bilateral series.

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