Quote Originally Posted by BanjoPie View Post
My first ever post on a Cricket thread. If it's raining at the start of the day and its forecast for the rest of the day, why can't the officials just postpone play until the next day? - why can't the match go in to a 6th or even 7th day?. Not a Cricket buff (no doubt you may have already guessed that) but if rains during Wimbledon, they extend the the tournament into the following Monday. Seems a daft ruling to me to just award the match to whoever is in front after the 5 days is up!!
The issue with ‘rain days’ is that the knock on effect it would cause. Do you do it just for test cricket? Or does it filter in to first class cricket? I haven’t looked at Lancashires fixtures, but will they need the pitch preparing over the next few days?
What the ICC needs to sort out is the inflexible nature of start and end times. If 90 overs need to be bowled a day and the day is glorious sunshine, bowl the 90 overs. If there is rain we can play until 7.30pm, yet if no rain we finish at 6.30pm regardless.
In the sub continent, it starts going dark earlier. Yet they start play at 11am. Again, why not start at 10am? It’s crazy. Fans in this country pay the best part of 70/80 quid for a ticket but don’t get the full days play.