Indian skipper MS Dhoni is known to collect the stumps used in a match after his side ends up on the winning side. But in the ongoing World Cup, he can’t be able to do so as the governing body ICC has told the players not to pick up the stumps. Even after defeating Pakistan, MS Dhoni did not disturb the stumps after his team’s 76 run victory over their rivals.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has warned the players taking part in the World Cup not to take out the stumps, bails as match souvenirs after their respective team has won the match. The specific reason being that these set of ‘LED stumps’ cost USD 40,000 (Rs 24 lakh) and the pair of bails costs as much as Rs 50,000 approximately.
The ‘LED stumps’ were first used during the 2013 edition of ‘Big Bash’ after which they were used on an experimental basis at the World T20 in Bangladesh, where the response was pretty positive.
“Well, this is a very costly system. The entire set-up during a match costs USD 40,000 (Rs 25 Lakh approx), so I don’t allow the players to uproot it during any celebrations,” EcKermann, the inventor of LED stumps, had told PTI in Mirpur.
That Eckermann and ICC are strict about it can be gauged from the fact that all the patented stumps and bails are kept intact. It had taken almost three years of research from Eckermann to give his dream a shape. Eckermann, along with David Leigitwood as a commercial partner, formed Zing International and sold his idea to Cricket Australia, the report added.