Rain Interruptions Could Soon be Things of Past in Cricket

[beetle]

London: English cricket chiefs are exploring deploying "giant tents" to ensure rain no longer stops play, a report said on Wednesday.

Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper said research was being carried out into placing mesh netting over grounds after a US company approached the England and Wales Cricket Board.

The ECB has spoken to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord's in northwest London, about the issue, the report said.

A fine, transparent mesh would be held up by wires suspended from floodlights with a hot air balloon in the centre to lift it up and create a tent-like effect. 

"We would look at any new technology and ways to get games on and more people playing cricket," a spokesman for the ECB told the Telegraph.

"There is some interesting technology around trying to create protection from rain and keep the game on in wet weather," Guy Lavender, the new MCC chief executive, was quoted as saying.

"It is an enormous issue for cricket. When you think about the impact of the weather on cricket in the UK we have a part to play, as a leading club in the game, in thinking about how those new technologies develop and are tested."

The report said there are issues to address such as how to handle the run-off water and safety in high winds The technology is believed to be at least two years away from becoming a reality.

A damp August meant a large number of Twenty20 matches were wrecked and cricket authorities will be keen to avoid disruption to a new city-based T20 competition that starts in 2020.

 

http://www.news18.com/cricketnext/amp/news/rain-interruptions-could-soon-be-things-of-past-in-cricket-1536187.html

 

bcci should be thinking something lime this . Get the DL out of the game .

[beetle]

Sabse pehle put a small tent on that tea cup called Chinnaswamy.

[beetle]

4 minutes ago, MultiB48 said:

i like playing in the rain

With your friends Duckworth  and Lewis ?

[G_B_]

good....

 

hope this comes to fruition....

[mancalledsting]

if this idea becomes a reality, it could end up being one of the biggest advances in the history of the game (similar to WSC) and allow it to compete with rival sports. It could also mean the ECB ends up becoming an even bigger force in the world game as they could hold a world class domestic t20 competition. 

[SK_IH]

wow awesome news

[speedheat]

Will it have any impact on conditions, Swing ?

Don't worry you can still use
pins, blades, shoe spikes,bottle caps turfs etc. for reverse swing

[Texan]

Good that at least some clubs are considering new technologies like these. Rain wrecks havoc in cricket more than any other sport. 

 

Even if this idea cannot be implemented, one more item to consider here is creating tents that cover the ground. Even if no play can occur when it is raining, these tents should protect the pitch and the field such that we don' t have to spend hours drying up the ground after a rain interruption. Large amount of time is wasted in cricket in trying to dry up the ground.