New ICC rules for Umpires call

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To know about the Umpires Call, first, you need to know about LBW. If the batsmen use his leg to stop the oncoming ball hit the stumps behind him, it's declared as OUT by the onfield Umpire stating Leg Before Wicket as the reason.

The ball hitting the leg pads need to be in line with the wickets and the batsmen should miss hitting the ball before touching the pads, then only the umpire will state his decision as OUT.

These decisions can be wrong sometimes due to the error of the umpires in the international matches. So, the International Cricket Council, the apex body which sees and makes cricket rules, introduced a Decision Review system.

In this system, a captain of the team can challenge the decision taken by the on-field umpire. A player can challenge a limited number of times in a match or in an innings depending on the format. 

How DRS works in Cricket?

For an LBW appeal, when a captain signals for a third umpire by making a T shaped gesture using his hands, the on-field umpire makes a rectangle or TV shaped gesture asking for a DRS.

Then, the Third umpire checks for the ball legality, and then, checks if the bat touches the ball before hitting the batsmen pads. If there is no bat involved then, he/she checks for the line.

If the ball is in line, then he uses ball tracking to check whether the ball is hitting the wickets by plotting the ball's trajectory and angle using the software. 

With the help of the high-speed cameras placed on the ground pointing at the batsman from four directions. The software interpolates the path from the point of hitting on pads to the wickets behind the batsmen.

If more than 50% of the ball is hitting any part of the wicket, the TV umpire will give the decision as out. If not, the final decision will be the ground umpires decision, which is known as umpires call. If the decision is umpires call, the review is not struck from the limited number.

Change in Rules

After backlash from the players, the ICC has made a few rules back in 2016 by increasing the wicket zone from inside of the leg and off-stump to outside of the leg and off-stump. Now, this wicket zone has increased from the bottom of the bails to the top of the bails.

Even now the ball has to hit more than 50% to change the decision made by the on-field umpire.

The South Africa Tour of India called off due to Corona virus

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The South Africa Tour of India with three ODI has also been called off due to CoronaVirus.

The first match is abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain in Dharamsala.

The second match is set to take place in Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.

The Third Match is set to take place in Eden Gardens Kolkata.

After a patient tested positive in Uttar Pradesh, the UP government requested BCCI to call off the 2nd and 3rd ODI.

International Cricket Council has tweeted that the cancellation of the two remaining ODI is true.

CONFIRMED: The #INDvSA ODI series has been suspended in the wake of a growing number of coronavirus cases. pic.twitter.com/3qE3CnHG24

— ICC (@ICC) March 13, 2020

Check out the latest pics of Indian Cricketers with masks on, clicked at Lucknow airport for their match against South Africa on 15 March.

Indian Cricket Team reaches Lucknow for ODI against South Africa on 15th March. The match will be played without any spectators army Ekana stadium. #coronavirusinindia #INDvSA #INDvsSA @BCCI pic.twitter.com/VVsePHeEzL

— Qazi Faraz Ahmad (@qazifarazahmad) March 13, 2020

South Africa Tour Of India March 2020 Match no 1

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Match no: 1

Date: 12-March

Day: Thursday

Venue: Dharamsala

Stadium: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium

Match Status: Match Abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain.

Match Preview: 

After a 3-0 drubbing in New Zealand, India is back to their comfort zone, playing in home conditions. Over the last few years, India has a terrific record of playing at home and that should help them heal the bruises they suffered against New Zealand. South Africa, on the other hand, has been in terrific touch and are coming off a 3-0 win over the Aussies. Still, the assignment of playing in India will be tough for them as adapting to the conditions so quickly will be a challenge. The first match of the three-match series between the two sides is to be played at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Cricket Ground, Dharamsala on 12th March.


India Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Virat Kohli (C), KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill.

South Africa Squad: Quinton de Kock(w/c), Temba Bavuma, Faf du Plessis, JJ Smuts, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Janneman Malan, Kyle Verreynne, Anrich Nortje, Lutho Sipamla, George Linde, Rassie van der Dussen, Beuran Hendricks

India:

While India wasn't playing with a truly depleted side against the Kiwis, one could argue that they weren't playing at their full-strength either. With Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Hardik Pandya back in the squad, this India unit looks as dangerous as it looked a couple of months ago. However, Rohit Sharma is still out injured and Mayank Agarwal is likely to slot in the top along with Shikhar Dhawan.

Ravindra Jadeja was brilliant in the away conditions, which were excellent for the seam bowlers, and he is likely to be even for effective on Indian soil. That, however, leaves India with a bitter-sweet problem to pick between Jadeja and Pandya. We might see India pick both of them and leave the number six out, but that might leave India with a long tail.

South Africa: 

South Africa has had a rollercoaster ride over the last couple of months, but they finally seem to be picking up pace. A 3-0 win against Australia would have imbibed them with plenty of confidence and they will be raring to go against this out-of-form Indian unit.

Against the Aussies, the Proteas were fantastic in all departments of the game. The change of management seems to have worked wonders for them and this series against India would be a big test for the Proteas. On paper, they have a very talented batting unit, although it is a bit inexperienced. The return of Faf du Plessis is going to provide them with a bit of comfort in the top-order, something which they seemed to be lacking against the Aussies. Their middle-order, with Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller in superb form, looks as good as ever. With bowling doing fine as well, beating South Africa isn't going to be as trivial as it appeared to be a couple of months ago.

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South Africa Tour Of India March 2020

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In this tour, South Africa is going to play three ODI's.

• The first match is going to be in Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala on 12th March 2020
• The Second Match in Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow 15th March 2020.
• The Third Match in Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 18th March 2020

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Squads

Team India 

Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Virat Kohli (C), KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill.

South Africa

Quinton de Kock(w/c), Temba Bavuma, Faf du Plessis, JJ Smuts, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Andile Phehlukwayo, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Janneman Malan, Kyle Verreynne, Anrich Nortje, Lutho Sipamla, George Linde, Rassie van der Dussen, Beuran Hendricks