ICC to introduce cease clock to control tempo of play
In a radical step to control the tempo of play, the ICC has stated it should experiment with having a cease clock between overs. A penalty of 5 runs might be imposed on the bowling aspect in the event that they fail thrice in an innings to begin the brand new over inside a minute.
The transfer, which was accepted by the chief executives committee, might be restricted to males’s ODIs and T20Is, and might be examined on a “trial foundation” for six months between this December and April 2024. The primary occasion the place this might be used might be within the upcoming three-match ODI collection between West Indies and England, which begins on December 3.
“The clock might be used to control the period of time taken between overs,” the ICC stated in a media launch on Tuesday. “If the bowling group is just not able to bowl the subsequent over inside 60 seconds of the earlier over being accomplished, a five-run penalty might be imposed the third time it occurs in an innings.”
In 2022, the ICC had launched an in-match penalty in ODIs and T20Is – in each males’s and ladies’s cricket – to fight gradual over charges. Presently, as per the enjoying situations, the sanction for each codecs is: if the fielding group fails to begin the ultimate over by the stipulated time, they’re docked one fielder from outdoors the 30-yard circle.
The third umpire, by way of a timer, regulates the time whereas accounting for any stoppages, earlier than relaying it to the on-field match officers. The rule was launched in T20Is in January and in ODIs throughout the World Cup Qualifiers in June-July earlier this 12 months. That sanction is along with financial fines groups must pay for gradual over charges beneath the ICC’s enjoying situations.
Having a cease clock is just not an unprecedented transfer in sport, with tennis utilizing the ‘shot clock’ the place a participant will get 25 seconds to get able to serve between factors. The ‘shot clock’ was additionally steered by the MCC’s World Cricket Committee in 2018 to fight gradual over charges in all three codecs. The MCC committee, which included former worldwide captains Ricky Ponting, Sourav Ganguly and Kumar Sangakkara, had beneficial the ‘shot clock’ could be used throughout the “useless time” in a sport.
The clock, Ponting, on the time, had defined wouldn’t be operation throughout an over. “It’s the useless time within the sport, so on the finish of the over the fielders and the bowlers must be again within the place and able to bowl at a sure time. That could be a non-negotiable. The identical with the brand new batsman coming to the crease – the bowling group needs to be prepared when the batsman will get there and he has had sure period of time.”
