Women's World Cup No Balls

Eight matches, 1,956 deliveries, one front foot no ball.

PTG Editor.

Thursday, 27 February 2020.

PTG 3039-15047.

Eight matches into the Womens Twenty20 World Cup (WT20WC) and with a total of 1,956 deliveries sent down, third umpires monitoring front foot no balls have so far found just one, that being by Sri Lankan off break bowler Kavisha Dilhari in the third game of the event last Saturday.  

That’s an overstep no ball rate to date of 0.0005 per cent (or one every 326 overs), which is very low when compared to the combined statistics from the International Cricket Council’s latest third umpire no ball trial where the figure in the men’s games involved was 0.36 per cent, or one call every 46 overs (PTG 3005-14889, 23 January 2020). 

Five other no balls have been called by on-field umpires in the WT20WC to date, three for beamers, one each the West Indies’ Chinelle Henry and Shamilia Connell and the other by Thailand’s Soraya Lateh, while Australia’s Jessica Jonassen heard the call because fielding restriction requirements were not met, and India's Poonam Yadav because one of her deliveries bounced twice before it reached the popping crease (PTG 3035-15032, 22 February 2020).