Sunny for radical ODI rules
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A radical set of rules to revamp the one-day game will be considered by the International Cricket Council, which began a meeting in Melbourne yesterday. The ICC Cricket Committee, headed by Sunil Gavaskar, recommended the rules -- which came under public scrutiny -- to boost the flagging profile of one-day internationals, which many claim have become predictable in nature. Gavaskar mentioned two of the proposed changes that would be made to the ICC: "We've looked at a double-play situation, where if a batsman's been given out lbw and the ball ricochets off to gully and the fielder picks it up and throws it at the non-striker's end, so you have two dismissals off one ball," he said to The Melbourne Age. "Same if the ball's gone up in the air." He labelled one-dayers "predictable", and suggested that another way of making them more interesting was by splitting the 15-over restriction into three blocks that the batting side could use when they wanted. "The first idea was to leave it to the fielding side but then we thought that you might have a situation where the fielding side is so good, they might dismiss the opposition in 35 overs and have no field restrictions at all," said Gavaskar. "What we have suggested is that the batting side will choose the 15 overs it wants. That makes it all the more challenging for the fielding side." Asked about the possibility of Twenty20 being a replacement for one-dayers, Gavaskar said that it would not be a regular part of the international calendar because only three countries had experimented with it thus far.
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