ISLAMABAD – The front foot no ball technology would be used in the ICCWomen’s Twenty20 World Cup at Australia later this month.
The decision to use this system was made after successful trials conductedrecently in both India and the West Indies, said a press release issuedhere.
The third umpire would monitor the front foot landing position after eachball and communicate to the on-field umpire if the delivery was a no ball.
The on-field umpires have been instructed not to call any front foot noballs unless advised to do so by the third umpire, although they would beresponsible for calling all other types of no ball on the field.
The technology was recently trialed across 12 games, during which 4717balls were bowled and 13 no balls (0.28% of deliveries) were called. Alldeliveries were judged accurately.
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Geoff Allardice, ICC General Manager Cricket said he was confident that thetechnology would reduce the small number of front foot no ball errors atthe World Cup.
“No balls are difficult for umpires to call accurately, and even though thepercentage of deliveries that are no balls is low, it is important to callthem correctly. Since we first trialed this concept in the ODI seriesbetween England and Pakistan in 2016 the technology has improvedsignificantly, enabling us to introduce it cost-effectively, and withminimum impact on the flow of the game,” he said.
