ICC to trial TV umpires on front-foot no-ball calls

The ICC will soon empower TV umpires to

take a call on front foot no-balls on a trial basis, the world body's General Manager (Cricket Operations) Geoff Allardice said.

The ICC will test the new system in a few indentified 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.

"Broadly, yes (the same technology as 2016 will be used," Allardice, told ESPNcricinfo.

"The idea is the third umpire will be presented an image of the front-foot landing within a few seconds. He would communicate to the on-field umpire that a no ball has been delivered, so every delivery on the field would be played as a fair delivery until called otherwise."

The system was put to test before in the ODI series between England and Pakistan in 2016.

"The footage is shown on a slight delay, it goes to super slo-mo as the foot approaches the point of landing and then it freezes," Allardice ...