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Thought of listing my dream IPL team Sachin Tendulkar   Mathew Hayden Virender Sehwag Jacques Kallis Suresh Raina M S Dhoni (W & C) Robin Uthappa Yosuf Pathan Muralidharan Shan Tait Zaher Khan Does this look like a balanced and all-round team? PS: The comic is created using Bitstrips .

A sudden flash of thought.  The influence of toss is steeply increasing on the result of a cricket match (Particularly ODI & Test) . Why we need to go for a toss?. Instead of a toss we shall use the "Super Over"  . (If you don't know what a super over is then refer:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Over ).  The super over winning team captain can decide whether to go for bowling or batting.  The advantages of this method over toss are : No pure luck factor to decide the result of the match. Imaging every match starting with a super over.. That would be great bonanza for the spectators.  This would make the result of a cricket match decided purely on cricketing skills rather than on pure luck factors. Does this makes sense?

Cricket is no exception to technology impacts. We have seen during the past decade how this sport has benefited (!) by introduction of technology. Continuing this trend, rather at a increased pace I wondered how cricket would be around 2015. These are simply the glimpses of my thoughts at this point in time: Smart Pitch Reader : Instead of manual pitch reports there would be specialized devices which would scan the pitch with various sensors for factors like moisture, hardness, soil type, grass length, grass orientation, wind direction & speed etc. The collected data would then be analysed with the help of data-mining techniques with the global database and the behaviour of pitch would be predicted with maximum possible accuracy levels. Smart Fielding Guide : Think of a situation when the captain is running out of ideas. He would be given a specialized device which would guide him to set the fielding. He might get spots in the ground illuminated (indicating fielder positions). ...