ICC has not introduced new laws in international cricket
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved several changes in its rules for men’s international cricket.
According to the report of cricket website ‘Cricinfo’, ICC has decided to introduce ‘stop clock’ in Test cricket after white ball cricket. The ninth law is that it is not necessary to change the ball immediately after intentionally hitting the ball and spitting.
These rules included the new law regarding the boundary and the catch hole and it was decided to use only one ball after the 35th over in ODI matches. Some of the changes have already been implemented for the 2023-24 World Test Championship, and the white-ball rules will come into force from July 2.
Test cricket between ‘stop clock’
To fix the problem of slow over rate, a ‘stop clock’ was installed in Test cricket.
The ninth law is that the fielding teams will have to start the ninth over within one minute after the end of each over. If this does not happen, the umpire will give two warnings. If it is not accepted, the bowling team will be penalized by 5 runs. Warnings will be reset after every 80 overs.
Balls must not be changed intentionally
Although spitting is prohibited, it is not necessary that the ball be changed immediately after spitting. This is so that teams don’t deliberately spit to change the ball.
The ball will only be changed if there is a clear difference between the ball’s condition (becoming too wet or too shiny), a decision entirely at the discretion of the umpire.
If the umpire decides that the ball has not been hit, the ball will not be replaced, even if the middle does not swing. But in this case, middle batting teams will be given 5 runs.
DRS switch
If a batsman is declared caught out and he brings a review, and the ultra-edge finds out that the ball only hit the pads and not the bat, the umpire will check whether the batsman is out lbw through ball tracking.
According to the old law, a caught out would be wrong, and the ‘original decision’ when checking lbw would be considered not out, and the batsman would be saved by the umpires’ call.
But the new law states that ball-tracking for LBW will be considered an out, while for S-J the ball-tracking umpires will call and the batsman will be out.
