Cricket: No-ball process to be reviewed

On-field no-ball calls will again be on the agenda at the ICC's next meeting after the controversial call that benefitted Australia's Adam Voges in the first test against New Zealand.

Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum has called on the world governing cricket body to consider handing all front-foot calls to a video umpire after Doug Bracewell was incorrectly called on a delivery that bowled Voges on seven, before he went on to make 239.

"The ICC Cricket Committee will be discussing the use of technology at its next meeting, and the topic of reviewing no-balls will again be part of that discussion," an ICC spokesman told Fairfax Media.

"The ICC Cricket Committee has discussed this issue on a number of occasions and come to the same conclusion each time - it is not right that a batsman plays a delivery that is illegal, only to be told retrospectively that it was legal and that he is out by a mode of dismissal that would not have been allowed from an illegal delivery."

The ICC did, however, defend their current system, which does not allow for no-ball calls to be overturned after a batsman is dismissed.

Last year Australian umpire Simon Taufel sent a report to the game's official law makers, the Marylebone Cricket Club, recommending no-balls be called from the TV box.

The umpire at the centre of the controversy, Richard Illingworth, is reportedly distraught about the "howler" which changed the complexion of the Basin Reserve Test.

He will not stand as an on-field umpire in the next test, but will be a third umpire, as per the appointments made prior to the series.

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