4 rules in cricket that should be changed.

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The first ever international cricket match was played in 1844 and the first-ever test cricket match was played in 1877 and since then a lot of cricketing laws have been made, changed or modified over the years. But there are still a few laws or rules which I feel can be changed or modified for the enhancement of the game:-


1. Toss The Toss -  Instead of tossing a coin in Test cricket, the choice should directly be given to the visiting team's captain to decide what he wants to do. This will almost exclude home advantage and one sided matches from the equation. Although it is not required in shorter formats as home advantage and toss doesn't matter a lot in shorter formats but if this rule will change in Test cricket, it will add a lot of excitement in the test cricket.




2. The Concept of Umpire's Call, Imapct and Pitching should be removed.

What if a fast bowler bowls a brilliant inswinger and the batsman completely misreads it, takes a long front foot for outswinger and gets hit on his pads. The replays show that he was just given not out because the impact was outside off otherwise the ball would have gone on to hit the middle stump. What is bowler's mistake here? Same is the case with the rule of pitching outside leg. According to the current law, the batsman can't be adjudged LBW if the ball is pitched outside leg. 

All in all, a batsman should be given out lbw if the ball goes on to hit the stumps irrespective of pitching, impact and the amount of ball hitting the stumps.




3. The front foot no ball should be given by the Third umpire -

Yes, this change has been implemented in a lot of games but it should be completely implemented in each and every game as it will allow  the on field umpires to focus on the remaining things and also using the technology if it is available isn't bad.



4. The Batsman should not be allowed to retain the strike if a short run is found -

The short run is when a batsman does not complete the distance needed to score a run and doesn't cross the popping crease while attempting to complete a run. In this case, that run isn't considered and a short run is declared. On many occasions, a lot of players did this deliberately to get back on strike which is unfair. Also if in normal case too a short run is found, then the decision of who will be on strike should be decided by the amount of legal runs scored or ran on that delivery.
For example, if a batsman scores 2 runs and a run is found short then he should not be allowed on strike the next delivery whereas if a batsman scores 3 runs and then a run is found short then that batsman should face the next delivery not the non striker.








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