Umpire's Call Won't Take Away a Review Anymore

[Agent TBY]

Teams to retain review for 'umpire's call' verdict | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Good call.

 

[honestbharani]

Yep.. been arguing it for years now. Glad they finally took that call and also no more topping up of reviews. Equally good call.

 

[Adders]

Excellent news. WTF is going on at the ICC atm......have they purchased some common sense from somewhere??

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good!

Waiting for them to bring back the penalty kick inspired bowl-off in the instance of a tied game.

They could go one step further and add the bowl-off in matches that are heading to be abandoned due to the rain.

 

[Howsie]

If teams used DRS for what it was actually for you wouldn't need to do this.

 

[harsh.ag]

If teams used DRS for what it was actually for you wouldn't need to do this.

Yeah like when it's smashing into the stumps but no one realized it's pitched outside the leg stump.

 

[Dan]

Dammit. No. Horrible move. Now we get more reviews on 50/50 calls, more time out of the game, more over rate complaints and literally no benefits.

I'll say the same thing I've been saying for years -- don't ****ing review ****ing 50/50 calls and expect any sympathy.

 

[OverratedSanity]

This just encourages teams to review more marginal calls,which is not a good thing.

 

[morgieb]

While I agree that it's kinda annoying for teams to lose a review for something that's an 80/20 but comes up umpire's call, the most likely solution for this is that you go for a lot more 50/50 calls than previous, which hurts over-rates. And in Tests there were very few wrong calls be unable to overturned because the team runs out of reviews.

Suppose getting rid of the 80 over reset helps in that regard though.

 

[Athlai]

Why are they giving us what we want? Such a weird week

 

[honestbharani]

To be fair, the ICC cricket committee has generally been pretty good at their jobs and their recommendations. So its not totally surprising AFAIC, at least.

 

[Daemon]

Dammit. No. Horrible move. Now we get more reviews on 50/50 calls, more time out of the game, more over rate complaints and literally no benefits.

I'll say the same thing I've been saying for years -- don't ****ing review ****ing 50/50 calls and expect any sympathy.

It's a game that lasts 5 days, who gives a **** if we waste like 15 minutes more per day

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's a game that lasts 5 days, who gives a **** if we waste like 15 minutes more per day

This is easy to say but it can easily get out of hand. We could concievably have 25 reviews a day if there's lots of close calls.

 

[Loose Cannon]

This should only be the rule for your last review.

It would keep speculative reviews low, but remove the sucky millimetre close umpires call screwing the last review.

 

[Daemon]

This is easy to say but it can easily get out of hand. We could concievably have 25 reviews a day if there's lots of close calls.

That's assuming like 15-20 of them are ump calls, which is not happening.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

In conjunction with the no refresh at the 80 over mark, I think this will work well. You'll still have to be very careful with them for that reason.

Tbh, I've seen reviews of umpire's decisions that I've considered howlers that have come up as umpire's call by a millimetre or two ... so I think it's good that sides won't be penalised for that anymore.

 

[harsh.ag]

Am all for this. The current system can deflate bowlers sometimes and I hate that sight.

 

[DriveClub]

Actually they should limit unsuccessful reviews to just 1. That would make the teams think twice before reviewing strategically

 

[smash84]

What was the issue with drs reset at 80 overs? I thought it was a good thing that if a team ended up wasting their reviews then they get another chance after 80 overs

 

[Starfighter]

Can't wait for someone to forget that the reviews aren't renewed anymore and wasting them both in the seventieth over.