West Indies Kieron Pollard bats as his teammate Dwayne Bravo seems to be on throughout a apply session in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
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Trinbago Knight Riders Captain Kieron Pollard criticised the CPL’s new red-card ruling, after his staff was issued the primary ever crimson card within the event’s historical past for a gradual over price of their six-wicket win over St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots at Warner Park, St. Kitts not too long ago.
Pollard was comparatively happy along with his staff’s efficiency as they acquired their first win of the CPL season. Nonetheless, he didn’t maintain again as he took problem with the brand new ruling.
“The fellows bowled properly, up till the seventeenth over. The brand new guidelines or innovation which has come about, that value us some 25-30 runs in direction of the tip,” Pollard stated.
“To be trustworthy, I feel it’s going to remove the onerous work the fellows would have performed all through the innings. You might be one minute (behind time) as a fielding staff and you’ve got guys (being requested to) are available.
“Ultimately, you’ve a man who has to come back off the sphere additionally. I feel we’re simply freely giving runs for Cricinfo.”
With CPL’S over-rate guidelines that are being applied for each the boys’s and the ladies’s tournaments, groups are given a minimal of 85 minutes to finish their allotted 20 overs. Nonetheless, the groups will likely be penalised if they’re behind the over price on the finish of the seventeenth, 18th and nineteenth overs, with a further fielder being positioned within the 30-yard circle on the finish of the seventeenth and 18th respectively.
If the staff’s over price continues to be too gradual on the finish of the penultimate over, a crimson card will likely be issued to one of many fielders to depart the sphere earlier than the beginning of the twentieth over.
Whereas taking part in towards the Patriots, TKR and Pollard have been behind the over price on all three events, with Umpire Zahid Bassarath issuing the primary crimson card to Sunil Narine.
All the way down to 10 males, and with six fielders within the 30-yard circle versus simply two exterior, Dwayne Bravo conceded 18 runs within the last over.
“I don’t know the way we’re going to overcome this new ruling. We’re simply going to proceed to play cricket how we all know tips on how to play and if that’s going to find out matches and that’s what they need to see them we’ve to go along with it.”
“However I feel being penalized for 30 and 40 seconds within the event like that is completely ridiculous,” Pollard stated.
