I was watching the Nasdaq-100 Open Women's final between the Russians Sharapova and Kuznetsova (which the latter won easily, by the way), and what do I see? They were using Dr. Paul Hawkins' Hawkeye technology. The players could challenge any line call they disagreed with. What's even more interesting is that their use is similar to the solution I had suggested last year.
Each player will receive two challenges per set to review line calls. If he or she is correct, he will retain the same number of challenges, but if he is incorrect, one will be lost.
My suggestion had been to allow teams to challenge as many decisions as they want so long as they are correct. If they are incorrect on two occasions, they would lose the right to challenge any more decisions.
While we wait for the men people running ICC to grow balls (and common sense) and start using Hawkeye to aid the umpire, the tennis world has already done so. Granted, they're using it to determine where the ball's been instead of where the ball would have been, but Hawkeye and other similar technologies (the red strip marking the wicket to wicket area, for instance) are not being used to determine that either (ie, where the ball has landed or hit the player's pads). It disgusts me.
April 3, 2006 at 1:50 pm
The twits at the ICC will not want the game to change in 400 years, much less incorporate technology into it.
April 6, 2006 at 8:34 pm
I wonder when the ICC heads get replaced again. We have to hope somebody with a better head will come in next time.
June 14, 2006 at 6:01 pm
[...] To give credit to the ICC, after my initial scathing critique, they’re ringing in the crucial changes. Apart from experimenting with technology, they moved with surprising swiftness to clarify the whole Lara-Dhoni faux pas of the first Test. There are lots of such gray areas in cricket though, and ICC needs to weed them out rather than waiting for them to create a problem before clarifying on it. And as the game continues to evolve, more of these gray areas will pop up. [...]
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