How can the balance between bat and ball be restored?

[Sher Khan]

The imbalance between bat and ball is a huge issue in Cricket today. I personally find Cricket much more watchable and competetive when their are bowling friendly pitches created. As the batsmen have to actually work hard for runs.

In my view, umpire's call should be done away with as any ball that goes onto hit the stumps should be given out. Furthermore, their should be more leniency with wide calls, as too often bowlers bowl great bouncers only to turn around and see the umpire signal a wide. This is killing aggression in fast bowlers.

What are some others that you can think of?

 

[DRsohail]

Remove two new balls.

 

[Sher Khan]

Another thing could be perhaps more leniency with the elbow flexion rule. Maybe make it 20 degrees? Because it's almost impossible to bowl doosras under the current legal limit.

 

[Technics 1210]

Tests = get rid of the 1 bouncer per over rule
ODIs/T20s = get rid of 2 balls and relax fielding restrictions

 

[James]

2-3 bouncers should be allowed per over.

There was a ludicrous occasion in the first Test between England and the West Indies wherein Ben Stokes bowled a modestly short one with the first ball of the over, the batter needlessly ducked underneath it which made it “look” more like a bouncer, and the one bouncer was then called.

Stokes was grimacing immediately. The bowling plans and field placings for the remainder of the over then had to be changed. It didn’t feel entirely right that this happened.

 

[Rana]

-No two new balls
-No field restrictions in white ball cricket
-No bowling limits on bowlers overs

When I become a multi billionaire like Alan Stanford, I will start my own franchise T20 league with these rules.

 

[Kianig89]

For ODis fielding restrictions to be lifted and scrap that two new ball phenomenon simple as that and lastly no micky mouse boundaries

 

[James]

There used to be a replenishment of DRS reviews at 80 overs as well. That got taken away. Perhaps it could be brought back in, for the bowling side only. And/or, a higher base number of reviews available for the bowling side.

 

[Buffet]

The imbalance between bat and ball is a huge issue in Cricket today. I personally find Cricket much more watchable and competetive when their are bowling friendly pitches created. As the batsmen have to actually work hard for runs.

Are you talking about the longer format or shorter format?

It is surely an issue in the shorter format. In test cricket, most countries have produced pitches where batsmen have to work really hard for runs.

 

[Buffet]

In the last 5 years, the bowling average of all countries taken together is below 30 in the test format.

Pakistan putting two dead pitches to avoid loss has been an exception and it's not the norm.