MS Dhoni: New ICC ODI rules are bit tricky

Indian captain MS Dhoni, named the new rules for ODIs set by the ICC as ‘’tricky’ and the reverse swing will be difficult now for the pacers, who used to get the reverse swing by the old ball. As the new rules of ICC says that there will use of two new balls per innings.

According to the new ICC rules, there would be two new balls used from the two ends while batting and bowling powerplays needs to be taken within the 16th and the 40th over. Dhoni describes it is a bit tricky as they have not yet played any match under this new powerplay. It would certainly need a different approach as the second and third powerplay will now be taken within the 16th and the 40th over.

MS Dhoni insisted that, earlier while chasing teams batting second would like to take batting powerplay for the last five overs. Now with new rules, teams have rethink their tactics and it will be different getting used to new rules. The new rules of ICC will be coming into play with Ind vs. Eng series. Indian skipper, Dhoni said on the eve of their opening encounter of the five-match ODI series against England.

The skipper also seemed worried about the fact that there may not be a lot of reverse swing as both the balls will be only 25 overs old at the most. The Indian pacers used reverse swing very effectively but now there may not be much reverse swing as we expect in the sub-continent. However, the swing will be there which is quiet encouraging to the swing bowlers. Batsmen has reassess their plans and play according to the situations.

Team India is still not back to their strength as they misses dashing batsmen Virender Sehwag, little master Sachin Tnedulkar, all-rounder Yuvraj Singh and pacer Ishant Sharma while off spinner Harbhajan and speedster Sreesanth were ruled out. Other opener Gambhir back in team after suffering concussion but the opening batting combo is still unpredictable. Will India go with duo of Gambhir-Rahane or Gambhir-Parthiv. MS Dhoni might consider Gambhir to come at No.3 as Rahane and Parthiv to open and followed by Kholi, Rain and Dhoni in batting order.   

While the bowling duties will be led by Parveen Kumar, in addition to Vinay Kumar, Varun Aaron, Umesh Yadav, Sreenath Aravind and in the spin department R Ashwin and leggy Rahul Sharma with all rounder R Jadeja completes bowling line-up. Manoj Twiary has to wait for his turn as he might be stick to bench. Let’s hope everyone gets a chance and India will be finishing side and go up in the rankings. 

Ind-Eng series: Hotspot will not be available

The controversial Hot Spot has been a reason to get frustrated, and in the upcoming 5-match one-day between India-England the Hotspot will not be available. England will be touring India and the tour is scheduled to kick start on October 14. 

BBG Sports chief executive Warren Brennan said that, BBG company has decided not to bring the Hot Spot technology for the upcoming ODI series of Ind Vs Eng, after it did not find BCCI's support.  BBG Sports is saddened by the performance of Hot Spot in the UK during the England Vs India series. There were several incidents where they were hoping for better outcomes from the technology, said Brennan. 

Brennan made the statements were followed by the comments made by Mr Srinivasan stated that BBG Sports believed it did not have the support of the BCCI relating to Hot Spot and the DRS process on Sep 20. BBG has swiftly decided not to bring the Hot Spot to India for their upcoming home series. 

During India's ODI series in England in August, Hot Spot had proved uncertain during referrals of several appeals for caught-behind and was subsequently criticized by the BCCI. Earlier in July, the BCCI had agreed to a negotiation with the ICC wherein the Hot Spot was made mandatory in the use of DRS while ball-tracking technology was made optional as they had bitter taste off it in the World Cup, where decisions against went them. 

Taking the charges as new BCCI president, N Srinivasan reverted to the Board's original stand against the DRS following Hot Spot's performance on the England tour.  Srinivasan that, they want to revisit Hot Spot technology as they feel that Hot Spot is insufficient, and do not wish to use the DRS in its present form, even in its minimum standard.

However, Brennan looks forward that the Hot Spot technology will continued to be used in the series outside the subcontinent. 

ICC in talks with Interpol to fight against corruption

The ICC- International Cricket Council has been involved in talks with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to boost co-operation in fighting corruption in sport. the chairman of the ICC's anti-corruption and security unit said that the director general of Interpol made contact with them. So they were expected to explore is a memorandum of understanding, and so they can mutually cooperate and work together to end corrouption in teworld of sport.

Earlier, FIFA, the governing body for football announced that it would vow US$29 million to Interpol each year in upcoming next ten years to deal with corruption in football. However, Flanagan said the ICC didn't have the money to finance investigations. They don't have money to spend, so they can mutually cooperate and work together, but not to the extent that they have any money to pay them to do investigations for us. Unfortunately, investigations themselves fall back to our unit.

Flanagan admitted there was also threat to domestic matches could be affected by corruption, as they   were given the increased scrutiny of international fixtures. At a World Sports Law Report conference, Flanagan called for greater co-operation between sports associations to battle the problem of corruption.

The director  of anti-corrouption unit of ICC, said that he is pretty certain that the bad guys within the sports and the nasty criminals, people outside those sports don't necessarily imprison themselves to one sport. So as they move across the barriers, across different sports, the sport faternity must ensure they cooperate even more closely together.  He quoted that they must share intelligence, share methodology, share experiences.

Most recently, the Pakistan trio - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were banned for five and ten years after an ICC tribunal found them guilty of spot-fixing during the Lord's Test against England last year.