No one should be surprised that the front-foot no-ball law is creating controversy and confusion and that umpire Richard Illingworth's error gave Adam Voges a monumental reprieve in the Wellington Test.

In 1962, Richie Benaud asked Sir Donald Bradman (both favoured a back-foot law) to act as an umpire in the nets to prove how the then, new front-foot no-ball law was unworkable. When the photographs taken in that experiment were developed, Benaud found; “An umpire, on more occasions than not, would be calling no-ball when in fact the ball was perfectly legitimate, by something like half an inch. It was just that the umpire's line of sight was pushing the bowler's boot forward so it looked as though it was a no-ball.”