The ICC has announced that the playing conditions will change in a lot of ways on October 1, 2022. In the updated 3rd Edition of the 2017 Code of the Laws of Cricket, the Men’s Cricket Committee, which was led by former India captain Sourav Ganguly, suggested changes to the playing conditions.
The Women’s Cricket Committee was also told about the results, and they agreed with the suggestions.
The new playing conditions will go into effect on October 1, 2022. This means that the new rules will be used at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia next month.
These are the Most Important Changes:
When a batter is caught, the next batter comes in at the end where the striker was, even if the batter crossed before the catch was made.
Before, if the batters crossed before a catch was made, the non-striker would take a strike on the next ball while the new batter was at the non-end. striker’s
The ban on using saliva to polish the ball has been in place in international cricket for more than two years as a temporary measure related to COVID. It is now thought that the ban should be made permanent.
Because COVID-19 was spreading, the rule was made to stop the virus from spreading on the field. The rule went into effect when cricket was played again in July 2020 after a break. It will now stay in place. During the time when players couldn’t use their saliva, they used sweat to shine the ball, which worked.
An incoming batter ready to face the ball: An incoming batter will now have to be ready to take strike within two minutes in Tests and ODIs, while the current limit of 90 seconds in T20Is stays the same.
In ODIs and Tests, the next batter used to have three minutes to take a strike, but that time has now been cut in half. If they don’t, the captain of the fielding team can ask for a time-out.
The right of the striker to hit the ball is limited so that some part of their bat or body must stay on the pitch. If they go past that, the umpire will call “dead ball” and show a signal. “No ball” also refers to any ball that would force the batter to leave the field.
Unfair movement by the fielding team: If the fielding team moves in an unfair way while the bowler is running into bowl, the umpire could give the batting team five penalty runs and call it “Dead ball.”
Running out of the non-striker: The playing conditions follow the laws by moving this way of getting a run out from the “Unfair Play” section to the “Run out” section.
Before, running out a non-striker for backing up too much was seen as unfair. Now, it will just be seen as a normal run-out.
Before, a bowler could throw the ball toward the striker’s end if they saw the batter moving down the wicket before they started their delivery stride. This was done to try to run out the striker. From now on, this will be called a “dead ball.”
Another big decisions: the in-match penalty that was put in place for T20Is in January 2022 (if a fielding team doesn’t finish their overs by the scheduled end time, an extra fielder has to be brought into the fielding circle for the rest of the innings), will now be used in ODIs after the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League is over in 2023.
The rule has already been put into place, and teams have lost games because they took too long between overs. One example is India and Pakistan’s second match in the 2022 Asia Cup.
Ganguly thanked everyone on the ICC Cricket Committee for what they did to help make the recommendations. “It was a pleasure to lead my first ICC Cricket Committee meeting,” he said. “I liked how the committee members worked together to come up with good ideas that led to important recommendations.” “I’d like to thank everyone for their helpful comments and ideas.”
The ICC Cricket Committee is made up of Sourav Ganguly (chair), Ramiz Raja (observer), Mahela Jayawardena and Roger Harper (past players), Daniel Vettori and VVS Laxman (representatives of current players), Gary Stead (representative of member team coaches), Jay Shah (representative of full members), Joel Wilson (representative of umpires), Ranjan Madugalle (ICC chief referee), and Jamie Cox (statistician).
