Rain plays a major spoilsport in the game of cricket. Rain affects cricket more than any other game. As compared to soccer where you can see players playing the game even when it is raining pretty briskly, in cricket even a small drizzle stops the game and the a portion of the ground that comprises of the pitch and bowlers run ups has to be covered. This eats up lot of time in the game. This problem has persisted some countries have come out with solutions that has given partial solution of this problem like super soaker.
The super soaker absorbs the water that's on the covers and in the outfield pretty fast thereby it is able to get the ground ready for play fast. However there is no technology solution there till that that can give a complete solution of this problem.
We need some technology that would keep the rain off the ground when a match is scheduled. Cricket grounds are huge so it is not possible to have roof overhead, putting such a roof would make it necessary to have pillars on the field itself which is not possible since they may obstruct the game.
We need something that when we want would actually someway somehow obstruct the rain and disperse it to areas outside the ground. If such a technology is made it will be of great use in cricket as no one wants a rain marred cricket match.
Technology has solved a lot of complex problems that man used to face earlier, hopefully this problem of rain marred cricket matches is solved soon. There have been too many cases where in a competitive tournament a team has been thrown out just because of a rain delay. Take the infamous 1992 Cricket World Cup semi-final match between Pakistan and South Africa. The rain delay resulted in revised target of getting 11 runs of 1 ball which is impossible to score. South Africa lost that match and Pakistan went on the become champions.
There are so many occasions when teams are actually denied a test victory because of rain immediately what comes to my mind is a 1997 test match in South Africa between India and South Africa in which the last day saw lots of rains and India was unable to get the last two wickets. Again in that wonderful series against Australia in Australia the last test match could have been won by India had the rain gods not intervened.
No spectator who has gone to the ground for watching a cricket match wants a match that is washed out by rain. A spectator not only loses the money he spent to buy the ticket but also there is a deep disappointment after spending hours in rain in hope of getting to see some cricket. Lets hope that in the near future there would be some technology solution to this rained off cricket matches and people get to see more results.
The super soaker absorbs the water that's on the covers and in the outfield pretty fast thereby it is able to get the ground ready for play fast. However there is no technology solution there till that that can give a complete solution of this problem.
We need some technology that would keep the rain off the ground when a match is scheduled. Cricket grounds are huge so it is not possible to have roof overhead, putting such a roof would make it necessary to have pillars on the field itself which is not possible since they may obstruct the game.
We need something that when we want would actually someway somehow obstruct the rain and disperse it to areas outside the ground. If such a technology is made it will be of great use in cricket as no one wants a rain marred cricket match.
Technology has solved a lot of complex problems that man used to face earlier, hopefully this problem of rain marred cricket matches is solved soon. There have been too many cases where in a competitive tournament a team has been thrown out just because of a rain delay. Take the infamous 1992 Cricket World Cup semi-final match between Pakistan and South Africa. The rain delay resulted in revised target of getting 11 runs of 1 ball which is impossible to score. South Africa lost that match and Pakistan went on the become champions.
There are so many occasions when teams are actually denied a test victory because of rain immediately what comes to my mind is a 1997 test match in South Africa between India and South Africa in which the last day saw lots of rains and India was unable to get the last two wickets. Again in that wonderful series against Australia in Australia the last test match could have been won by India had the rain gods not intervened.
No spectator who has gone to the ground for watching a cricket match wants a match that is washed out by rain. A spectator not only loses the money he spent to buy the ticket but also there is a deep disappointment after spending hours in rain in hope of getting to see some cricket. Lets hope that in the near future there would be some technology solution to this rained off cricket matches and people get to see more results.
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