Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“put bowlers on the clock between deliveries, if they take longer than say 30 seconds, a run gets added as an extra, if the batters are delaying things a run gets taken off their score
fines haven't seemed to work, so need to do something different”
I agree with the sentiment, but what happens when it's the end of a test match, with 2 runs needed off the final ball, and they want to take time to get the field right?
I think the umpires need red and yellow cards, used perhaps more like in rugby than football, with a timed sin-bin, and in extreme cases, the ability to send someone off for a whole innings/match, say. I imagine these being used sparingly, but with some of the on-field behaviour and with the over-rates, maybe that's an option?