Cricket News: ICC to trial TV umpires for front-foot no-ball calls

ICC is planning to empower TV umpires to become the sole adjudicators of front-foot no-balls in cricket matches and for this, it will be conducting trials in the coming days. The ICC will test the new system in a few identified limited-overs series over the next six months and if the experiment pans out to be a success, on-field umpires could lose the right to call no-balls for overstepping in future. In the 2016 ODI series between England and Pakistan, the system was put into the trial but it will be rolled out on a much broader scale this time. The ICC decided to test the system again after its Cricket Committee recommended to use it in as many limited-overs matches as possible. The trial period will ensure that the world body understands all the challenges before implementing this across all matches.