The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday made some huge choices on the upcoming T20 World Cup enjoying conditions. The cricket physique has introduced enjoying conditions for the worldwide match within the USA and West Indies to be performed in June 2024. It has additionally confirmed the stop-clock rule to turn into a everlasting characteristic in white-ball cricket.
The ICC has confirmed that the stop-clock characteristic might be applied in white-ball cricket – each T20Is and ODIs from the T20 World Cup 2024 onwards. The rule was in use on an experiment foundation and yielded constructive outcomes, the cricket physique famous. “The stop-clock is set to become permanent in all ODIs and T20Is from June 2024, starting with the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies and USA. Results presented to the Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) demonstrated that approximately 20 minutes had been saved per ODI match. The feature has now been added as a mandatory playing condition in all Full Member ODI and T20I matches from 1 June 2024,” the cricket physique mentioned.Â
The ICC has additionally introduced that the semifinals and last of the upcoming T20 World Cup may have a reserve day. “It was also confirmed during the meetings that ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 would have reserve days scheduled for the semi-finals and final,” the physique added.
Notably, the ICC additionally famous that the workforce batting second might want to bat for at the very least 5 overs for a recreation to be constituted, whereas within the semifinals and the ultimate, the required over quantity for the chasing aspect goes as much as 10 overs.Â
“Furthermore, a minimum of five overs will need to be bowled to the team batting second to constitute a game in the group stages and the Super Eight stages. However, in the knockout matches, a minimum of 10 overs need to be bowled in the second innings to constitute a match,” ICC said.
What is stop-clock rule?
The stop-clock rule hurries up the sport time and reduces the time misplaced between the overs. As per it, the fielding aspect wants to begin the brand new over inside 60 seconds of the time the earlier over ended. An digital clock will run after an over-ended with the third-umpire figuring out the beginning of the clock timer. There might be warnings given to the fielding aspect as soon as every for two failures to begin the brand new over inside the stipulated time. After this, a penalty of 5 runs might be given to the fielding aspect for failure of subsequent overs.
The ICC introduced named a couple of exceptions too:
– When a brand new batter involves the wicket between overs
– An official drinks interval has been referred to as
– The umpires have accredited the onfield remedy of an harm to a batter or fielder
– The time misplaced is for any circumstances past the management of the fielding aspect
