Ball colour, shrinking fields up for discussion

The discolouring of the white ball in one-day matches and the shrinking size of playing fields will be two of many issues discussed by the newly-constituted ICC cricket committee, which meets in Dubai later this month, former Australian captain Mark Taylor has said.

8220;They the ICC want people who see it from different points of view. One thing we8217;re all trying to get right is the white ball in one-day cricket,8221; Taylor said. 8220;There has already been quite a bit of chat in cricket circles about that. Whether we should use a new ball from each end or change the ball at a given time during the innings just to make it easier for people to see.8221;

Taylor also wondered whether boundaries that had been brought in over recent years to standardise playing fields and offer players a safety zone between the rope and the fence had swung the game too heavily in favour of batsmen. ICC standards for boundaries during one-day matches are playing arenas of 110 metres long and 130 metres wide.