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17 following any legislative or other official changes. E.g. Calcutta now known as Kolkata. It was also stressed that databases should link the old with the new names. Using sponsor’s names in a ground name was far more problematic as sponsorship was usually only for a limited time period. Although using a sponsor’s name in a ground name may help distinguish it from other ground names in that town or city, the sub- group thought that it should be possible to distinguish by using placenames e.g. using a suburb or district name, or the name of the home club who play at that ground. 26 If a Not out decision is overturned on review, what time is the time of the batter’s dismissal? Nigel Smith had raised this question and had asked whether it was: (a) at the time of the original appeal to the on-field umpire(s), (b) at the time when the DRS call was signalled by the on-field umpire, (c) when the third umpire confirms that an amended decision should be made, or (d) when the on-field umpire signals that the batter is out. Under the wording of Law 31.2, the batter was out at (a) but the time of the dismissal took place at (d) and that this was the time which should be used for the end of the batter’s innings (and their partnership with a colleague). 27 The Hundred will be a game comprising 20 overs, albeit of five balls, so should they be grouped with T20 records? In the ICC’s classification of ‘official cricket’, The Hundred would not be a category separate from T20 (note that the UAE T10 tournament is ‘approved cricket’ but not ‘official cricket’). The sub-group recognize that people will want answers to questions such as what is the top score or best bowling in T20 cricket so to answer such questions it was important to have filters on databases so that separate statistics can be generated for various T20 tournaments, including The Hundred, or to generate a player’s performances combined in all tournament variants). It was noted that we currently do not have filtering for different over limits in List A matches or different match lengths in Tests (three-day, four-day, five-day or timeless etc.). Therefore, the sub-group agreed that The Hundred should be regarded as a variant of List A T20 cricket and that it would be appropriate for The Hundred to be considered as a separate tournament category for statistical purposes. 28 How should team totals be described in The Hundred? It had been suggested that it would be better to say that Team X scored 200 from 100 balls, rather than 200 from 20 overs? The sub-group agreed that this would be appropriate, and that the winning margin should be expressed as ‘by x wickets with y balls [not overs] remaining.’ 29 What is the most appropriate way of presenting bowling figures in The Hundred? It had also been suggested that bowling figures should be presented as Balls, Dot Balls, Runs and Wickets, rather than Overs, Maidens, Runs and Wickets? It was noted that