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Printed on: Nov 22, 2023
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has launched a penalty system for overs which might be bowled late by a fielding aspect. The bowling crew will get 60 seconds between overs. 5 runs can be added to the batting aspect’s complete if such a delay occurs 3 times in an innings.
The choice, which was taken on the ICC Board assembly in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, November 21, can be tried out on an experimental foundation from December to April subsequent yr. The primary trial of his regulation will happen through the three-match ODI collection between West Indies and England, which begins on December 3.
“The clock can be used to control the period of time taken between overs. If the bowling crew is just not able to bowl the following over inside 60 seconds of the earlier over being accomplished, a five-run penalty can be imposed the third time it occurs in an innings,” an ICC launch on the most recent growth stated.
In one other vital transfer, the ICC Board additionally permitted new gender eligibility rule for worldwide matches. As per the brand new laws, any male to feminine contributors who’ve been by any type of male puberty is not going to be eligible to take part within the worldwide girls’s sport no matter any surgical procedure or gender reassignment remedy they could have undertaken
“The brand new coverage relies on the next rules (so as of precedence), safety of the integrity of the ladies’s sport, security, equity and inclusion,” the ICC said. The laws can be reviewed inside two years.
Relating to modifications to the gender eligibility laws, ICC Chief Government Geoff Allardice stated, “[They] resulted from an intensive session course of and is based in science and aligned with the core rules developed through the evaluate. Inclusivity is extremely necessary to us as a sport, however our precedence was to guard the integrity of the worldwide girls’s sport and the security of gamers.”
Following the event, Danielle McGahey, who grew to become the primary transgender to play worldwide cricket earlier this yr, can not function in girls’s worldwide video games. 29-year-old McGahey initially hails from Australia, however moved to Canada in 2020 and underwent a male-to-female medical transition in 2021. She has featured in six T20Is, scoring 118 runs at a mean of 19.66 and a strike price of 95.93.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
