‘Not signed an over-rate sheet since Ashes’, says protesting Ben Stokes on silent ICC

In the erstwhile WTC Final, Australia were fined 80% of their lucifer fees astatine the Oval portion India were fined 100% of theirs arsenic well.

“The astir frustrating happening is it’s an contented depending connected wherever you are successful the satellite and the benignant of cricket that’s played,” said Stokes, according to the Guardian. “There is ne'er an over-rate contented successful Asia due to the fact that of however overmuch rotation is bowled. I deliberation determination needs to beryllium immoderate information astir however implicit rates disagree erstwhile it’s a seam-dominant Test match.”

“I’ve not signed an over-rate expanse since Lord’s successful the Ashes,” Stokes said, claiming his frustrations were shared by different teams. “I won’t until we perceive immoderate connection backmost from the ICC. We’re inactive waiting for that. But they inactive instrumentality the fines disconnected you anyway.”

Stokes said that determination was a deficiency of knowing of wherefore slower implicit rates volition hap and that the ICC’s attack of 1 footwear fits each was not thing that was conducive oregon adjuvant successful changing the situation. One of the issues, according to Stokes, was tract placements and however helium arsenic a skipper liked to perpetually alteration his tract – an occurrence that makes the crippled a conflict betwixt dwindling implicit rates and providing competitory advantages to bowlers via tract settings.

“We’re not purposely being slower,’ Stokes added. “It’s hard to find wherever you tin get the clip backmost erstwhile you’re retired successful the middle. As a captain, I similar to alteration things rather a lot. The tract could beryllium wholly antithetic [for each] six balls successful an over. But that’s not taken into information and getting told to conscionable hurry up isn’t going to hole it.”