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    18 days ago

    Cricket:

    1. Remove the backfoot no ball. It does not benefit the sport but puts a lot of stress on bowlers bodies, knees in particular. The most commonly injured body part for bowlers. They land with 6x the impact of their bodyweight on one knee 6 times an over, like 20 overs a day. No good.

    2. So much I would change in Odis that i dont even have the energy to wrote it all.

    3. A shit ton of administrative changes.

    4. Mankads to no longer be stigmatised (they are legal already)

    5. Allow some level of ball tampering, by which I mean not using anything but allowing some controlled substances.

    6. Add substitutions

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      218 days ago
      1. Remove the backdoor no ball. It does not benefit the sport but puts a lot of stress on bowlers bodies, knees in particular. The most commonly injured body part for bowlers. They land with 6x the impact of their bodyweight on one knee 6 times an over, like 20 overs a day. No good.

      I can get behind any rule that exists to protect the players. Sports are inherently physical but they shouldn’t endanger the athletes.

      One of the reasons why I have a hard time getting behind boxing/certain martial arts as sports, it just feels like slightly more sanitized gladiatorial combat.

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        218 days ago

        I think fighting sports have their place in society. We’ve had them forever across so many cultures that i can’t really dislike em.

        We just enjoy violence I guess. Better it be controlled than not.