The International Cricket Council (ICC) has determined to introduce a brand new rule named “stop clock” to regulate the time taken between overs. The legislation shall be applied on a trial-run foundation from December 2023 to April 2024 in men’s ODIs and T20Is significantly.
The legislation states that ” If the bowling team is not ready to bowl the next over within 60 seconds of the previous over being completed, a 5-run penalty will be imposed the third time it happens in an innings,” as talked about in a media launch issued by the ICC.
The assembly has led to a cluster of different modifications which might be anticipated to have a major influence on the ever-changing panorama of the game in each men’s and ladies’s circuits. The apex cricketing governing physique has additionally tried to simplify the standards concerning modifications to the pitch and outfield monitoring rules.
“Changes to the pitch and outfield monitoring regulations were also approved, including a simplification of the criteria against which a pitch is assessed and increasing the threshold for when a venue could have its international status removed from five demerit points to six demerit points over a five-year period,” ICC’s assertion learn.
ICC bans transgender cricketers born as males from collaborating in worldwide ladies’s cricket
In a ground-breaking growth, the governing physique has imposed a ban on transgender cricketers born as males from collaborating in ladies’s worldwide competitions the world over. The resolution has been taken as per its newly authorised gender eligibility rules, following a 9-month session course of with the game’s stakeholders.
“The new policy is based on the following principles (in order of priority), protection of the integrity of the women’s game, safety, fairness and inclusion, and this means any Male to Female participants who have been through any form of male puberty will not be eligible to participate in the international women’s game regardless of any surgery or gender reassignment treatment they may have undertaken,” ICC’s assertion learn additional.
However, the ICC has talked about that the authority to take calls associated to gender eligibility standards on the home stage will stick with the respective board.
“The review, which was led by the ICC Medical Advisory Committee chaired by Dr Peter Harcourt, relates solely to gender eligibility for international women’s cricket, whilst gender eligibility at domestic level is a matter for each individual Member Board, which may be impacted by local legislation. The regulations will be reviewed within two years,” the media launch said.
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