ICC coming under fire for its 2.5 m rule in UDRS, has tweaked the rule to improve its consistency. It has decided that if the impact for a Batsman is 2.5 meters or above, and the middle of the ball is hitting any part of the middle stump (on hawk eyes prediction that is )it will be declared out. The tweak in the rule came into existence after the unfair ruling of Ian Bell as not out against India.
ICC must test these rules in some domestic level and think of all possible results and solutions before making them compulsory in high profile world tournaments. Now if this tweak was made before the England VS India match, Bell would have been declared out and India might have won the match. If India in case lose out a spot on the quarterfinals by any chance, the rule and the ICC might itself could be facing more wrath. Hope ICC learns a little from these mistakes and talks some sense into itself before bringing more technology into cricket.
What the 2.5 m rule says now ??
"If a not out decision is being reviewed, in order to report that the ball is hitting the stumps, the evidence provided by technology should show that the center of the ball would have hit the stumps on any part of the middle stump"
Previously it was "within an area demarcated by a line drawn below the lower edge of the bails and down the middle of the outer stumps" that obviously complicated things and made no sense at all.
ICC must test these rules in some domestic level and think of all possible results and solutions before making them compulsory in high profile world tournaments. Now if this tweak was made before the England VS India match, Bell would have been declared out and India might have won the match. If India in case lose out a spot on the quarterfinals by any chance, the rule and the ICC might itself could be facing more wrath. Hope ICC learns a little from these mistakes and talks some sense into itself before bringing more technology into cricket.
What the 2.5 m rule says now ??
"If a not out decision is being reviewed, in order to report that the ball is hitting the stumps, the evidence provided by technology should show that the center of the ball would have hit the stumps on any part of the middle stump"
Previously it was "within an area demarcated by a line drawn below the lower edge of the bails and down the middle of the outer stumps" that obviously complicated things and made no sense at all.
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