ICC should shed many fielding restrictions

In the Hindu, Ted Corbett writes that the ICC should stop needlessly tinkering with the ODI rules on field restrictions in particular, because captains now seem to be controlled by the playing conditions.

Its officials should begin by reading Iain Banks' novels from his sci-fi Culture series in which he outlines a world without law. I am not suggesting ICC should mull over the idea of disbanding its own authority -- oh, what a delicious idea -- but that it should halt its tinkering, go back to basic cricket law and leave strategy, tactics and the winning of matches by ordinary means to the players.