I've just read on the Sky Cricket internet page that the experiment of the TV Umpire monitoring and calling front foot no-balls is being trialled in the current England v. Pakistan Test Series. It'll be interesting to see how it goes. It seemed to work OK in the recent England v. Ireland ODIs.
Interesting that on one occasion, Illingworth forgot himself and called a no ball, giving half a signal before he remembered. Old habits die hard! Generally it seemed to work OK but I was always told that the umpire needed to call them loud and clear to give the batsman a chance to slog the ball, knowing he wouldn't be out but not possible with the TV umpire making the call. I assume the 'free hit' on the next ball only applies in the limited overs games.
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