Ravichandran Ashwin Comes Up With Suggestions To Stop The Non-Striker Batsmen From Early Leaving The Crease
Jul 28, 2020 at 4:57 PM
The 33-year-old Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has come up with an important suggestion to change the rules if a non-striker batsman leaves the crease before a bowler releases the ball.
To take the extra crucial advantage, the non-striker batsmen sometimes take some extra steps forward before the bowler releases the ball. In the crucial close calls, these steps matter most while these also help to convert a single into the double.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who believes in “Mankading” against these batsmen, has now come up with an important suggestion to prevent the non-striker batsmen to follow this system regularly.
Ashwin asks for the technology that can detect if a non-striker batsman taking some extra steps forward before the bowler releases the ball. In this case, the off-spinner has suggested disallowing the runs of that ball. He has come with this solution after the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the technology would be used to call no-balls in the first edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.
Just hope that technology will see if a batsmen is backing up before the bowler bowls a ball and disallow the runs of that ball every time the batter does so!!Thus, parity will be restored as far as the front line is concerned. #noball #dontbackup
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 28, 2020
Putting the same batsmen on strike might cost me a 4 or a 6 from the next ball: Ravichandran Ashwin
Then, Ashwin pointed out the disadvantages for the bowlers in the present practice from the non-striker batsmen. As the ongoing system is helping the partners to convert ones into twos, bowlers are facing the same batsman on the next ball which might cost them a boundary.
Ashwin feels that if the non-striker batsmen don’t take those extra steps before the bowler releases the ball, it may result in a single run and the bowler will deliver the next ball to the other batsman that may reduce the chances of boundaries on the next ball.
Ashwin further added that the same issue happened if a batsman wanting to get off strike for the next ball in Test cricket.
Many of you will not be able to see the grave disaparity here, so let me take some time out to clarify to the best of my abilities. If the non striker backs up 2 feet and manages to come back for a 2, he will put the same batsmen on strike for the next ball.
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 28, 2020
Putting the same batsmen on strike might cost me a 4 or a 6 from the next ball and eventually cost me 7 more runs instead of may be a 1 and a dot ball possibility at a different batsmen. The same will mean massively for a batter wanting to get off strike even in a test match.
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 28, 2020
As the present rules are mostly not supporting the bowlers, Ashwin feels that his suggested restrictions may provide some balance in this game.
It is time to restore the balance in what is an increasingly tough environement for the bowlers. #thefrontcrease #belongs to #bothparties @bhogleharsha we can use the same tech that we are proposing for a no ball check 120 balls in a T 20 game.
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 28, 2020
While a fan disagreed with that suggestion, Ashwin came with another alternative suggestion. In this case, Ashwin wants a free ball for the bowlers immediately the next ball after the non-strike batsman backed up.
Instead of Disallowing the run, may be the bowler can get a free ball the very next one where the batsmen has backed up. Some fairness to start off may be.
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 28, 2020