ICC annual meeting 2011:Haroon Lorgat shields ICC’s decision to ban runners – Cricket News Update
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hong-Kong-c2919.
The ICC’s decision has drawn immense criticism from different circles of the cricketing fraternity as the opponents argue that this sanction will become a severe impediment for some of the best batsmen, when they are unfit to run properly.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863, the former Indian captain and current cricket expert, is at the forefront to target this ban. He said two days ago, that if batsmen could not be provided with runners, the bowlers must not have access to energy drinks on the boundary.
Addressing to a press conference today, Lorgat said, “It's been considered by the cricket committee... and there has been a strong feeling that runners were used not in the right spirit. It's quite a difficult one for umpires to determine whether there has
been a real injury to batters or whether it was a tactical use of runners.”
He further told, “If a bowler gets injured you can't continue bowling for the rest of the day and the feeling was that it would be better to not allow the use of runners because there has been abuse in the past.”
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 has taken some other drastic decisions in its ongoing meeting. The amendment in Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS), banning political meddling in sports, change in the ODI format and a mega Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the upcoming eights years
are the iconic issues that have been tackled during the first five days of the meeting.
All these decisions are being criticised by the world cricket experts and analysts for one or the other reasons.
The issue of runners had been under consideration and discussion since long and the ICC’s Executive Committee recommended the scrapping of this facility during its meeting last month.
Lorgat believes that this step will encourage a healthy competition and the game is likely to become fairer now.
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