Decision Time: ICC ponders Test, ODI and DRS future

ICC’s cricket committee to consider use of artificial light to extend play in Test matches during the two-day meeting.

LONDON: The future of Test and One-Day International (ODI) cricket, as well as the controversial decision review system (DRS), will be among the subjects up for discussion when the International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket committee gathers at Lord’s for a two-day meeting starting today.

The ICC would like DRS, first introduced in 2009, to be used in all ODIs as was the case at the recent World Cup in the Indian subcontinent. Suggestions the ICC committee will look at for reviving the 50-over game include split innings, possible use of two new balls per innings and allowing bowlers to bowl more than the current ODI maximum of 10 overs each.

The ICC’s cricket committee will also consider the use of artificial lights to extend play in Test matches and whether injured batsmen should still be allowed to use a runner in international matches.



Published in The Express Tribune, May 10^th, 2011.