New Playing Conditions for T20Is: The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently announced new playing conditions for T20I.
Key Points:
- It will come into effect with the upcoming T20I match between West Indies and Ireland at Sabina Park.
- The change was recommended by the ICC Cricket Committee.
- The committee regularly discusses ways to improve the pace of play in all formats, after considering reports on the effectiveness of a similar regulation that was included in the playing conditions for the Hundred competition conducted by the ECB.
About the conditions for T20Is:
- Under the new playing conditions, the fielding team will have to suffer the in-match penalty for slow over rates.
- The penalty would be introduced in both men's and women's Twenty20 Internationals and it will come into effect this month itself.
- The new playing conditions also include an optional drinks interval midway through the innings in bilateral T20 international cricket.
About the T20I New Playing Rules:
- The slow over rate regulations are listed under clause 13.8 of the playing conditions.
- The regulations stated that the fielding side must be in a position to bowl the first ball of the final over of the innings by the scheduled or rescheduled time for the end of the innings.
- If the fielding side is not able to stick to the scheduled time, they will have to face an in-match penalty.
- Optional drink breaks of 2 minutes and 30 seconds at the mid-point of each innings subject to agreement between Members at the start of each series.
- The in-match penalty was recommended by the ICC Cricket Committee, after considering reports on the effectiveness of a similar regulation that was included in the playing conditions for the Hundred competition conducted by the England Cricket Board (ECB).
- The in-match penalty is in addition to the sanctions for the slow over-rate outlined in Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel.
- If the fielding team is not in a position to bowl the first ball of the final over by the scheduled time then one fewer fielder will be permitted outside of the 30-yard circle for the remaining overs of the innings.
About ICC:
- It refers to the International Cricket Committee.
- ICC is the world governing body of cricket.
- It is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 15 June 1909 by representatives from Australia, England and South Africa.
- It was renamed as the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.
- The ICC, currently, has 106 member nations including 94 associates.
- It organizes world championship events such as Cricket World Cup, Women's Cricket World Cup, ICC T20 World Cup, ICC Women's T20 World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy and Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
- The current Chairman of ICC is Greg Barclay and the Chief Executive is Geoff Allardice.