English cricket’s Hundred format testing team ask organisers to include five-ball bonus scoring period
- English cricket’s Hundred testers want organisers to add a bonus scoring period
- A block of deliveries nominated by the batting side runs would count as double
- Every wicket in the period would mean five runs taken from the total though
- Feedback from the players followed three days of men’s trials at Trent Bridge
English cricket’s Hundred guinea pigs have asked tournament organisers to consider a five-ball bonus scoring period when they sit down to formulate the rules for the new competition.
It is proposed that during a block of deliveries nominated by the batting side runs will count double — with a caveat of every wicket in the period resulting in five runs being docked from the total.
The feedback from the players followed three days of men’s trials at Trent Bridge earlier this week which stopped short of including many of the radical elements floated in the build-up.
The ECB’s proposed 100-ball revolution is aimed at getting more sports fans into cricket
Those that appear set to stay when the working party sit down in November are a tactical time-out, bowlers being able to bowl 10 balls in a row regardless of a switch of ends, incoming batsmen always facing the next ball following run-out and catch situations and the use of two fielding subs.
The players played 50-ball-a-side games on the final day in an experiment to assess whether matches quicken up or slow down when the number of deliveries is reduced.
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