Pakistan’s Naseem Shah celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket. — Reuters/File
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has launched a collection of rule modifications that may apply to all three codecs of males’s worldwide cricket — Assessments, One Day Internationals (ODIs), and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
The brand new guidelines embrace modifications to the usage of balls in ODIs and up to date concussion substitute protocols.
ODI modifications
Below the present ICC rule, a brand new ball is used from every finish for 25 overs. Going ahead, each balls will probably be used as much as the thirty fourth over. From the thirty fifth over onwards, groups should select one of many two balls to proceed with till the tip of the innings.
For matches decreased to 25 overs or fewer, just one ball will probably be used all through.
In accordance with the ICC, the brand new regulation will assist bowlers, particularly by enabling reverse swing within the dying overs, which has develop into uncommon beneath the present rule as a result of persistently newer balls.
Concussion substitutes
As per the brand new coverage, captains should now submit an inventory of 5 designated concussion substitutes earlier than the toss. The checklist should embrace; one batter, one all-rounder, one wicketkeeper, one quick bowler, and one spinner.
Beforehand, groups might identify concussion substitutes throughout a match with out prior declaration.
The brand new ICC rules will take impact from June 17 for Take a look at matches, July 2 for ODIs, and July 10 for T20 Internationals.
‘Bunny hops illegal’
In a separate rule replace, the ICC, in collaboration with the Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC), has determined to ban the controversial ‘bunny-hop’ model of boundary catches, in keeping with stories.
Catches wherein a fielder jumps from past the boundary with out first touching the bottom inside the sphere of play — and redirects the ball whereas airborne — will now be dominated unlawful.
For a catch to be thought of legitimate, the fielder should have made preliminary contact with the ball whereas grounded inside the sphere of play.
Nonetheless, fielders who initially contact the ball inside the sphere, step outdoors as a result of momentum, after which return to finish the catch, will nonetheless be permitted beneath the regulation.
Whereas this rule will formally come into impact from October 2026, it is going to be mirrored in ICC enjoying circumstances beginning subsequent week.
