The coaches of Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Stephen Fleming and Tom Moody respectively, have shared their concerns about the over-rate in Indian Premier League (IPL) games in this season. Nearly all the games take more or less four hours to finish as there are many factors included like dew and the mandatory strategic time-outs delaying proceedings. Meanwhile, two captains have been penalised already of INR 12 lakh after Mumbai Indians’ game against Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals’ game against Chennai Super Kings as they could not complete their 20 overs in time.
Apart from those teams, other teams have finished within time. However, The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) coach Tom Moody shared that monetary punishments wouldn’t work out much, and suggested that the teams should follow Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) method to avoid the slow over-rate problem. CPL added a new rule in their playing conditions as they have started penalising by reducing 0.05 points if a bowling team unable to finish their innings by one over in the scheduled time.
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For every over the team unable to finish, they have reduced 0.10 points from their net run-rate. The change has been brought from the last year. Last year, in one of the games in CPL, St Lucia Stars were punished according to the rules for slow over-rate against Jamaica Tallawahs; where St Lucia were found nine minutes short of their allowed time and they lost 0.15 from their net run-rate.
“Simple solution, forget monetary fines, deduct from teams net run rate. Works in the @CPL, players quickly recognise the value of NRR when it comes to qualifying for playoffs!,” Moody tweeted in response to a complaint from the former England captain Michael Vaughan.
Simple solution, forget monetary fines, deduct from teams net run rate. Works in the @CPL, players quickly recognise the value of NRR when it comes to qualifying for playoffs!
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket) April 3, 2019
“It’s too slow,” Fleming expressed in the post-match press conference after Chennai lost to Mumbai on Wednesday. “I think it’s got to be a collective shift from everybody – players as well as on-field monitoring. I think there’s a little bit of broadcasting (issue) as well, there are times when you’re waiting to come back. So collectively, the whole thing could be sped up.”
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“The moisture (dew) does play a part. We’ve had a couple of games which have been very dewy. Wiping the ball is a consideration. But I think cricket in general is played at a pace below where it needs to be. So I’d love to see all forms of the game increase the pace. Even if it puts pressure on captains and bowlers, then so be it,” he added.
