whufc wrote:Aerie wrote:First things first, get rid of the drink breaks and see if that makes a difference.
Secondly, decide on how much time it should take between deliveries and between overs and have a clock for both batsman and bowlers. The batsman clock should be 5 seconds less than the bowler so they are ready. Accumulative time is added/discounted depending on when the batsman is ready to face and the bowler is at the top of his mark and begins run up. For each minute wasted a run is added to Sundries for the bowling team or taken away for the batting team at the end of the delivery that has just been bowled. Captain can have a certain amount of "time outs/extra time" for tactical decisions.
In order to control the above and not add more costs, maybe you have only one on-field umpire and two umpires off the field. Is square leg really required? They could always rotate.
Another time saver could be bringing back 8 ball overs.
Baseball have introduced the pitchers clock.
Could there be a time frame that the bowler is expected to have commenced his run up between balls. Clock shows the time each ball counting down like in baseball.
If bowlers fails to start run up in that time the team is penalised 5 runs.
I don't follow baseball so not sure how well that rule is going, i just know it was really controversial when it came in.
The 30 sec clock in AFL is an example too.
I think you could have an agreed time of say 40 seconds from the point the ball is dead ( we should rename that to the ball is Bairstow) to when the bowler needs to commence his run up. It could be 35 seconds for the batsman to be standing ready to face.
Have an accumulative bowlers clock and batters clock. If the bowler begins his run in at the 45 second mark, add 5 seconds as penalties. Likewise if the batsman pulls out, add on the time they have wasted. Each time the accumulative minute is passed, add or take off a run depending on if it is the bowling team or the fielding team.
Give the captain 'x' amount of time outs per session to extend that clock to make tactical decisions.
They do have to either adjust the required overs or extend the time as well. 90 overs in 6 hours has been around for as long as I can remember and the amount of time now lost to reviews, ball changes, weather inspections, concussion protocols etc is way more than it was 20 years ago.