The International Cricket Council’s Cricket Committee has voted unanimously to replace manual match referee pitch evaluations with an objective, sensor-driven assessment framework.
Commencing with the 2027 World Test Championship, venues will feature embedded soil moisture transducers and high-speed multi-angle ball-tracking sensors that calculate deviation, carry, and bounce variance automatically.
Venues that consistently generate extreme uneven bounce or rapid crumbling will automatically receive penalty demerit points based on transparent numerical indices rather than subjective post-match opinions.
