Tweaks to ODI cricket

[Dare]

No bouncer rule.

Green pitches

No 7 match series

Disallow 2 teams from overplaying each other in 2 year increments (IND SL and IND AUS)

make better goddamn white ball better. the bats are improving, but balls are still shitty as hell

no day-night game if the weather is fliped

Good points by these two.

I like the no bouncer limit rule, loosen the wide restrictions. 5 ODI max in a series and no overkill, seriously some of these players might as well build houses in other countries and stay there and wait for a ODI series to start.

Better pitches would do wonders for the game too.

 

[McLOVIN]

i mentioned about no bouncer rule few months ago, and every 1 booed me. well that maybe because i also mentioned about 1 beamer rule :laugh

 

[Dare]

i mentioned about no bouncer rule few months ago, and every 1 booed me. well that maybe because i also mentioned about 1 beamer rule :laugh

yea it was the beamer rule you mentioned. I would like to see the bouncer rule changed for both Tests and ODIs.

 

[drainpipe32]

5 match ODI series ftw! More iconic series, and less Sri Lanka v India. Also, cut down on tri series.

And perhaps bring back the Super Sub?

 

[sifter132]

Agree about changing/improving the balls. Even the new ones blend in with the white pitch far too easily. It's OK at the ground I guess, but on TV watching a white ball on a white pitch sucks...

 

[jkartik]

-2 Bouncers per over.

-For the Bowling powerplay, the fielding side should have no restrictions.
i.e for those 5 overs, they can set any kind of field they want.
may be a minimum of 2 fielders inside the inner circle ?

-No 7 match series.

-No Flat Tracks.

-Powerplays to be taken before the 40th over.

-Remove the compulsory change of ball after the 35th over.
its impossible to achieve reverse swing in an ODI.

 

[Dare]

-Remove the compulsory change of ball after the 35th over.its impossible to achieve reverse swing in an ODI.

Yea I dont get this rule of changing the ball after 35 overs. Nothing in it for the bowlers.

 

[Biggy]

Good points by these two.

I like the no bouncer limit rule, loosen the wide restrictions. 5 ODI max in a series and no overkill, seriously some of these players might as well build houses in other countries and stay there and wait for a ODI series to start.

Better pitches would do wonders for the game too.

Change number 1 that! How often do you see the batsmen take a huge swing at a ball that is just missing his pads down leg side but because he misses it he gets rewarded (huh!?) with the wide..

 

[TumTum]

Change number 1 that! How often do you see the batsmen take a huge swing at a ball that is just missing his pads down leg side but because he misses it he gets rewarded (huh!?) with the wide..

Well tbf it's not easy to hit a ball that's going past leg.

Maybe have it like indoor cricket, where there is a small margin for error if you go behind leg stump.

 

[Dare]

Well tbf it's not easy to hit a ball that's going past leg.

Maybe have it like indoor cricket, where there is a small margin for error if you go behind leg stump.

Anything down leg even if its just barely is going to be called a wide and that is not fair to the bowler. I would mind the wide on the offside also being extended. The bowler has to bowl the ball in the "hit me zone" just perfect for the batsman to smack the bowlers all around the park. Give the bowler some breeding room.
If the bowler isn't allowed to bowl a ball down leg by just a bit then the batsman shouldn't be allowed to back away towards leg and play a shot.

 

[angryangy]

Bowling rule changes are surely the main thing. Fielding rules haven't worked, instead they've just served to help assert ODIs as a defensive and uninventive game. It's yet to be seen whether the 2 new balls will make a great difference; when the ball is swinging, it swings quite nicely, but we've seen a lot of big scores when there hasn't been that sort of assistance.

Ground conditions are a minefield. If you have a problem with dewy night games that make chasing easy, then you should equally loathe day games where only the team batting first has to contend with a freshly watered pitch. The fact that it's difficult to make a pitch stay about the same for 100 overs is the great stumbling block for ODIs and yet it is one of the strengths of Test cricket. It's not just the contest between bat and ball hanging in the balance, but it should also be a contest between two teams, not simply one team and the cricket ground.

Quite a lot of thinking and more importantly, testing of theories is needed if the ODI game is to persist and by extension, if day/night Test matches are to rise without ridicule.