So short-sighted. Two new balls, changes to the ring fielder rule and boundaries brought in yet bat technology is being blamed? Come on.
It's ridiculous
For example, boundary ropes were originally introduced as a safety pre-caution/insurance issue IIRC
They were not originally intended to create a huge buffer to house cameramen, sightscreens, advertising hoardings, assorted hangers on, etc or to fundamentally change the nature of several grounds
At a bare minimum, I would like to see the introduction of a rule whereby a maximum setback distance (say 2 m) is imposed.
That would at least allow grounds to retain their distinctive flavour and ensure that batsmen aren't able to drop-kick 6s on artificially short boundaries at many Australian grounds.
I also do not understand the rule whereby a fielder must remain completely within the rope even after completing a catch
After all, if a rugby player gets the ball down before going into touch, it is still a try irrespective of where he ends up
It is also a nonsense that a batsman gets awarded with 6 if the ball hits the rope on the full
I could go on but you probably get my gist
Anyway, there are far easier options than outlawing bats of a certain type