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.
So much I would change in Odis that i dont even have the energy to wrote it all.
A shit ton of administrative changes.
Mankads to no longer be stigmatised (they are legal already)
Allow some level of ball tampering, by which I mean not using anything but allowing some controlled substances.
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.
Cricket:
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.
So much I would change in Odis that i dont even have the energy to wrote it all.
A shit ton of administrative changes.
Mankads to no longer be stigmatised (they are legal already)
Allow some level of ball tampering, by which I mean not using anything but allowing some controlled substances.
Add substitutions
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.
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.