The game of cricket is set to adopt a bit of change from Thursday with the Test match between Bangladesh a South Africa.

A new regulation will come into effect in the game of gentlemen that will change the ancient history of cricket.

Brent Fraser Bowden, popularly known as Billy Bowden, is the history maker in a sense.

Billy Bowden is the ‘first umpire’ in cricket who showed ‘red card’ to legendary cricketer Glenn McGrath, although that was not a serious deal at all.

Glenn McGrath is all for the introduction of red cards in cricket - as long as such extreme penalties don’t wipe out the game’s colourful personalities.

McGrath famously received a red card from Billy for his mock under-arm delivery in the first-ever T20 match against New Zealand at Eden Park in 2005.

But fast bowling’s greatest Test wicket-taker admits there were other more serious times in his career where a red-card deterrent may have made him pull his head in.

‘There were a couple of time I probably carried on like a pork chop and wished I could have gone back and changed that, McGrath said.

McGrath suspects red cards would mostly only be applied for incidents like the legendary WACA clash between Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad in 1981.

‘It’ll be interesting to see to what extent it will be used. They obviously have it in soccer and football and no one wants to get red-carded, but we’ll see how it goes.’

Officials have made it clear the introduction of a red-card system is specifically targeted at addressing increasingly poor standards of behaviour in recreational cricket, rather than at the professional level.

It will, however, apply in all international and professional domestic matches, reports Cricket.com.