Former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard mentioned the primary Caribbean Premier League crimson card handed out to his Trinbago Knight Riders aspect was “absolutely ridiculous”.
Trinbago had been compelled to area with solely 10 gamers, together with simply two exterior the 30-yard circle, for the ultimate over of their bowling innings towards St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Sunday on account of a sluggish over-rate.
The CPL has introduced within the crimson card rule as a part of new initiatives to hurry up sluggish over-rates.
The guidelines require groups to have accomplished the seventeenth over of the innings by 72 minutes and 15 seconds, the 18th by 76 minutes and 30 seconds and the nineteenth by 80 minutes and 45 seconds.
The rule will not be restricted to bowling sides, with batting sides to be given a five-run penalty for every occasion of time-wasting after a primary and closing warning from umpires.
Pollard was first compelled to have one further fielder contained in the ring for the 18th over, earlier than one other needed to come up from the boundary within the penultimate over, leaving simply three within the outfield.
His staff had been nonetheless behind the required fee heading into the ultimate over and with umpire Zahid Bassarath displaying him a crimson card, spinner Sunil Narine was compelled to go away the sector,
“To be honest, it will take away the hard work everyone has done,” Pollard mentioned. “We are like the pawns and we are going to do what we are told.
“We are going to play as fast as we can. If you are penalised for 30-45 seconds in a tournament like this, it is absolutely ridiculous.”
Despite the ultimate over of the Patriots’ innings costing Trinbago’s Dwayne Bravo 18 runs, it didn’t show essential.
Pollard, Nicholas Pooran and Andre Russell made brief work of a 179-run goal with 17 balls spare.
It comes amid a crackdown on over charges by the ICC within the worldwide sport, with each England and Australia docked important quantities of World Test Championship factors for his or her over charges throughout the just lately concluded Ashes sequence.
Australian opener Usman Khawaja spoke out after the rain-affected fourth Test in Manchester.
“Don’t even get the chance to bowl in the second innings at Manchester due to 2 days of rain and (the) ICC still issue fines and take 10 WTC points off us for slow over rates!”, Khawaja tweeted earlier this yr.
“That makes a lot of sense …”
While the crimson card answer could seem weird, it isn’t the primary use of the football-inspired sanction on the cricket pitch.
The very first worldwide T20 fixture between Australia and New Zealand, at Eden Park in 2005, was handled as successfully an exhibition sport with gamers carrying faux moustaches and wigs.
Australia’s Glenn McGrath, with New Zealand needing an inconceivable 45 from the ultimate ball of the sport, went to mimic the notorious 1981 underarm ball, solely to be stopped by umpire Billy Bowden and given a crimson card.
– with AFP
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