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The MCC World Cricket committee met in Mumbai on 6 and 7 December.

It's key findings were:

  • Bat size edges and depths set to be limited at 40mm and 67mm respectively
  • Sending off in cricket close to inclusion in Laws of Cricket for first time
  • Ball tampering Law will not be changed
  • Committee split on possibility of introducing four-day Test Matches
  • ICC urged to continue to work towards introducing a World Test Championship and presenting the case for cricket at the Olympic Games
  • Law on ball striking a fielder’s worn helmet to be changed

MCC World Cricket committee Chairman Mike Brearley thanked Anurag Thakur, BCCI President, for attending part of the meeting, and said: "It was good for the committee to meet Anurag Thakur and discuss a range of subjects.

"It was an interesting two-way discussion, which included many good questions from Anurag on the subject of the Laws of the game, which was timely given the nature of our agenda and decisions reached in Mumbai this week."

Brearley also thanked David Richardson, ICC Chief Executive, for attending the meeting, and said: "David’s input at these meetings is invaluable, and we are grateful for his time and valuable contributions."


Bat edges and depths will be limited in the Laws of Cricket

The MCC World Cricket committee has recommended specific bat size limitations to the Laws of Cricket be made to both the edges and depth of a bat.

As a result, the main Committee of MCC will be asked to approve a limit to bat edges of 40mm and bat depths of 67mm (60mm for the depth plus an allowance of 7mm for a possible curve on the face of the bat). If approved, these changes will be implemented into the new code of the Laws of Cricket, which will be introduced on 1 October 2017.

The World Cricket committee believes that the balance of the game has tilted too far in the batsman's favour, and that the time has come to limit the sizes of bat edges and depths.

Whilst not wishing to turn the clocks back too far, the committee, together with the Club’s Cricket committee – which met last week at Lord’s – wants to draw a line in the sand and target mis-hits that are clearing the boundary ropes for six.

Many of the top players’ bats have edges of between 38mm and 42mm, but there are some which have edges of up to 50mm, which was felt to be excessive and in need of restriction.

A bat gauge will ensure that the new limits are adhered to in the professional game, whilst a moratorium period, allowing players to use their existing bats which may be in breach of the Law, will be allowed in the amateur game. The length of the moratorium will be determined by local governing bodies and may vary for different levels of cricket.


Sending-off to be introduced into the Laws of Cricket

The MCC World Cricket committee recommends that umpires be given the power to eject cricketers from a game for serious disciplinary breaches.

Subject to approval by the main MCC Committee, the new code of the Laws of Cricket will include a stipulation that umpires can remove a player from the field for the following:

  • threatening an umpire,
  • physically assaulting another player, umpire, official or spectator;
  • any other act of violence on the field of play.

The World Cricket committee believes that the game must now include a mechanism to deal with the worst disciplinary offences during the match, and not subsequent to it as is presently the case. If approved, the ability to send a player off would therefore come into effect at all levels of the game from 1st October 2017.

The committee debated sanctions for lesser offences – including run penalties and sin bins – but did not believe anything should be introduced to the Laws, where it would be harder to achieve consistency of application around the world. However, MCC will look to devise such a system as an appendix to the Laws which governing bodies or leagues may wish to implement within their own playing regulations.

The main reasons the World Cricket committee reached this conclusion were as follows:

  • Cricket is one of the only sports in which there is no ‘in-match’ punishment for poor behaviour. A captain may ask his player to leave the field but the umpires have no such jurisdiction. Taking an extreme example, a batsman could wilfully hit a member of the fielding side with their bat, before carrying on to score a century to win the match for their team.
  • The Spirit of Cricket states there is to be no violence on the field yet there is nothing in the Laws giving the umpires power to punish it during the match.
  • Cricket therefore needs a punishment which will have an impact on the perpetrator and his or her team during that particular match.
  • It is unrealistic to think that every captain will discipline his or her players and ensure that the Spirit of Cricket is followed. Almost all other sports have an umpire or referee who can take more drastic action.
  • Even if the sanction is rarely used, its presence will act as a suitable deterrent, thereby leading to an improvement in behaviour.
  • In MCC’s global consultation of cricket officials and administrators in 2015, an overwhelming majority of respondents supported the introduction of a system that gave more ‘in-match’ power to the umpires to deal with poor behaviour.
  • The decline in behaviour in the recreational game is having an adverse effect on the availability and willingness of people wanting to stand as umpires. The ECB Association of Cricket Officials (ACO) recognises this as a real problem and a recent survey by Portsmouth University showed that 40% of British umpires said that episodes of abuse made them question whether or not to continue umpiring.


Law on ball tampering will not be changed

The World Cricket committee believes that no changes should be made to Law 42.3(a): The match ball – changing its condition.

The recent incident involving Faf Du Plessis brought this Law into focus but MCC’s position – supported by the World Cricket committee – is that the Law is clear, and to try to be too prescriptive by listing banned substances would be counterproductive, as something will be missed in the process of such drafting.


Law on ball striking a fielder’s worn helmet to change

faf 300Catches and stumpings will be permitted after the ball has struck a fielder’s worn helmet. Following discussions at all MCC cricket committees, the main Committee will now be asked to approve this change into the new code of the Laws of Cricket.

At present, catches and stumpings may be taken off a wicket-keeper’s pads, the use of which is optional, and so it seems unfair that they should not be permitted after hitting a helmet, the wearing of which is often compulsorily at many levels of the game.

It is felt that balls rebounding off a fielder’s helmet could equally help or hinder the fielding side and so the suggestion that rebounds off the helmet make catches easier should be disregarded.

This change for the caught Law would include a ball becoming lodged or trapped in the grille of a fielder’s helmet, in the same way as it is caught if it gets trapped between the wicket-keeper’s pads or in a fielder’s sweater or pocket.


Committee split on possibility of four-day Tests

The MCC World Cricket committee debated the possibility of introducing a trial of four-day Test Matches, in an attempt to streamline the cricketing calendar, and all the pros and cons associated with the idea.

Historically, the last full series involving four-day Tests was played between New Zealand and Pakistan in 1972/73, whilst the England v Australia Test at the Oval in 1975 was scheduled for six days.

The committee was evenly split on the subject, with the arguments for and against put forward as follows:

Pros

  • Clear scheduling for all stakeholders (TV, fans, players), with every Test played Thursday to Sunday on a weekly cycle.
  • Greater crowds likely in grounds and more viewers on television for the last two days of the matches.
  • Given that the Boards want guaranteed cricket on both days of a weekend, ideally towards the end of the game, this model makes scheduling easier and will allow tours to be shorter.
  • Shorter tours would mean that less cricket would need to take place out of each country’s regular season, meaning fewer rain interruptions.
  • Players would have to speed up the over rates, with suspensions for captains not meeting the required targets (though DRS does slow things down). Spinners might need to be bowled more.
  • Play would be likely to change to a more attacking style, which might help to arrest the dwindling crowds in many countries.
  • Clearer scheduling for grounds in relation to staffing and operational costs, with most Tests running the full four days.
  • Broadcasters need only to pay for 4 days’ match costs, rather than 5, plus their schedules are more freed up for more lucrative limited overs cricket.
  • Evidence suggests that there would be no loss of revenue from broadcasters or sponsors if the Tests were shortened.

Cons

  • Likelihood of more drawn matches, especially those that are rain-affected, given that some matches are played in the rainy season.
  • The dynamic of Tests would change and the statistics would be less comparable with history, particularly if limits were placed on the duration of the teams’ first innings, which has been mooted.
  • There could be more ‘doctored’ pitches to get results within 4 days, particularly if allied to increased context.
  • It should not need a shift to 4 day Tests to speed up the over rates. Many sides struggle to bowl 90 overs in six and a half hours, so it is unrealistic to think they would bowl many more in a longer day. Any additional overs are likely to be bowled by part-time bowlers.
  • It might lead to more ‘manufactured’ games, with declaration bowling and cheap runs on offer.
  • The better team would have less chance of winning; the weaker team would have more chance of escaping with a draw.
  • With people increasingly more time-poor, it is unrealistic to expect spectators to want to see even longer days at a Test match.

The Committee will be interested to hear the thoughts from all of the game’s stakeholders – governing bodies, players, cricket fans, sponsors and broadcasters – and plans to revisit this subject at its next meeting in July.


Olympics the best way for growing the game worldwide

The committee reaffirmed its belief that cricket should embrace the concept of playing T20 in the Olympic Games.

With the prospect of applying to become a participating sport for 2024 still on the table, the committee encourages the ICC to work as hard as possible to see the game introduced to the Olympics.

The committee is encouraged to hear that a strategy is being written by ICC to look at the development of the game in both the US and China, but believes that the single most effective way cricket can grow around the world is by being included in the Olympics. The committee therefore asks all members of the ICC to work together to present its case for inclusion to the IOC.


A Conference-style World Test Championship should be pursued

The committee hopes that all ICC Full Member countries will be persuaded to instigate a World Test Championship.

Whilst previously supporting the idea of a two-divisional, promotion/relegation Championship, the committee heard an update from David Richardson on the developing proposal to introduce a conference-style competition to the longest form of the game.

The committee encourages ICC to continue this work and, ultimately, to persuade its Members to introduce such a system. The last six months has seen some excellent, competitive Test cricket played around the world, but with the rankings system as they are, and with the lower-ranked nations starting from such a long way behind, getting to the top seems almost unattainable. A conference system, with all teams starting from scratch, gives the lower-ranked teams more hope of toppling the best nations, and will help to stimulate interest and proper context in what is the ultimate form of the game.


Next meeting

The next meeting of the MCC World Cricket committee will take place at Lord's on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 July 2017, and will include a mini conference, with speakers from the MCC World Cricket committee past and present, providing an opportunity for MCC Members and guests to debate and discuss some of the big issues in the game.


Who are the World Cricket committee

The full list of committee members is as follows (those in italics are unable to attend the meeting):

Mike Brearley (Chairman)
John Stephenson (MCC Head of Cricket)
Jimmy Adams
Charlotte Edwards
Sourav Ganguly
Rod Marsh
Tim May
Brendon McCullum
Ricky Ponting
Ramiz Raja
Kumar Sangakkara
Vince van der Bijl
 
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Not much difference in the set sizes.

The thing that'll really make LOIs competitive is returning the use of a single ball. No two new balls!
 
What will be the equivalent of a two-footed tackle in Cricket?
 
Its all well to nominate the extreme case but what actually matters is how long a player can be sent off for and what is the minimum to get sent off.

What if a team loses a game because a star batsman can't bat on what appears to be a really arbitrary send off?

Not convinced there was a need for this and the fact that the MCC had to come up with the hypothetical of a batsman hitting an opposing player with a bat suggests it isn't urgent
 
Excellent recommendations. I would especially like to see the WTC and Olympics implemented. But not holding my breath on these two. The ICC does not have the backbone to do it.
 
Its about time we limit the bat size, ICC jump too quickly on little sugar on the ball, but never cared about size of bat or field. There should be limits to both... Bowlers has been marginalize with too much regulation on them and very little on batsmen...This is the side effect of commercialization.

Send off rules needs more clarification. Sort of yellow/red card system would make sense. Taking player out of the match completely could be too much in test, offense has to be really severe... Please note that in contact sports(Soccer, hockey, basketball, football, rugby), those incident happens more frequently. In cricket you rarely have physical fights. Rules should be more for decent to Umpires and others, incidents are more of yellow card type rather than red in cricket.
 
Really good suggestions! Would love to see a test championship as well as cricket in the Olympics.
 
Ridiculous introduction of rules.

Name me an incident which required this in cricket.
Cricket is a different game, the most a player does is sledge, now are you gonna issue a card for sledging the opposition?
 
Good idea if umpires have the guts to send off big names.
 
Ridiculous introduction of rules.

Name me an incident which required this in cricket.
Cricket is a different game, the most a player does is sledge, now are you gonna issue a card for sledging the opposition?

Only case of physical violence on the field that I recall is Lillie-Miandad. The one between Jadeja and Anderson happened off the field.
 
Ridiculous introduction of rules.

Name me an incident which required this in cricket.
Cricket is a different game, the most a player does is sledge, now are you gonna issue a card for sledging the opposition?
Mike Gatting with Shakoor Rana.

The entire India team in the West Indies two tours ago.
 
Ricky Ponting Behind Push To Introduce Red Cards In Cricket

It's cricket's equivalent of the day the music died. The gentleman's game is officially no more. This we say without fear upon learning of plans by cricket lawmakers -- including former Australian captain Ricky Ponting -- to introduce red cards, a la football (soccer).

In football, referees warn players for a serious offense with a yellow card, then automatically send them off for a second yellow. They can also send players off for a particularly grievous foul with a red card in the first instance.

Cricket has always been immune to these sort of punitive measures because it has famously seen itself as 'the gentlemen's game', in which players effectively self-police their behaviour. The umpires were always there to rule on, you know, actual cricket stuff.

But the world is changing. Cricket is getting uglier and lawmakers are trying to stop it.

Cricket's laws remain in the hands of England's Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The MCC's world cricket committee just recommended that players should be sent off for "threatening an umpire, physical assault or any other act of violence".

The MCC's world cricket committee chief is former England captain Mike Brearley. He believes behaviour is getting worse in cricket, and not just in the international matches so many of us watch, but in the lesser English leagues.

"Anecdotal evidence from people who are familiar with leagues in parts of England say that the behaviour has got worse," Brearley said at an announcement overnight.

"The umpires have to be respected and given the best possible chance, and I think cricket is the only game in which there isn't this possibility of an in-match punishment or deterrent," Brearley said.

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting is a member of the committee and is a strong supporter of the red card idea.

"It [the bad behaviour] has gotten completely out of hand. Something had to happen to prevent those things happening on the international stage," Ponting, a member of the committee, said.

"The modern player now understands their role in society, about being role models, and want to play the game the right way for younger kids."

There's no time frame yet for the possible introduction of red cards, but the committee's proposal follows a survey last month, in which 50 percent of UK umpires (763 were surveyed) said they suffer regular verbal abuse, and 40 percent said that abuse was so bad, it made them consider giving up the game.

Cricket matches have developed more and more of a football vibe in recent times. For spectators, evening Twenty20 matches, and even night-time One Dayers and Tests, replicate the more boisterous football match atmosphere.

On field, cricketers have been playing more like footballers, too, with a lot more aggression. Too much of that, and they could now be red-carded. Which would make cricket more like football, but ironically, more like what cricket was always supposed to be too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/20...ehind-push-to-introduce-red-cards-in-cricket/
 
Mark my words, this will lead to a low point in player behaviour.

There is now a seriously gigantic incentive to needle players and try and provoke reactions that might get key players sent off and this will become a huge problem.
 
Won't be seeing send-offs for anything less than physical violence of the punching and kicking kind. This is for the lower-levels of cricket so that the youngsters learn to behave themselves before being brought in front of a camera.
 
Won't be seeing send-offs for anything less than physical violence of the punching and kicking kind. This is for the lower-levels of cricket so that the youngsters learn to behave themselves before being brought in front of a camera.

Ahh, fair enough.

Alot of what goes on in domestic cricket isnt really documentated here.

Must be serious enough if they bought in this rule just for that
 
Ahh, fair enough.

Alot of what goes on in domestic cricket isnt really documentated here.

Must be serious enough if they bought in this rule just for that

Yeah, it makes sense too because you see a lot more youngsters at the lower levels of the game and they're usually the ones with hot heads.
 
Sending offs and bat restrictions coming to cricket!

Cricket's law-makers are to limit bat-sizes and introduce sendings-off among a new batch of rules which will take effect this year.

Bats will be measured with a "bat gauge" to make sure they don't exceed 108mm (4.25 inches) in width, 67mm in depth and 40mm at the edges, the Marylebone Cricket Club announced.

Umpires will also be able to send players from the field - temporarily or permanently - for serious offences like acts of violence in the first new Code of Laws issued since 2000.

A steady rise in bat sizes has been blamed for making cricket easier for batsmen and harder for bowlers, disturbing the "balance between bat and ball".

"The bat size issue has been heavily scrutinised and discussed in recent years," John Stephenson, MCC head of cricket, said in a statement.

"We believe the maximum dimensions we have set will help redress the balance between bat and ball, while still allowing the explosive, big hitting we all enjoy."

Under the new laws, umpires can also crack down on poor behaviour by issuing warnings, awarding penalty runs and even sending players off.

Excessive appealing and showing dissent at an umpire's decision can result in a warning, followed by five penalty runs for a second offence.

Throwing the ball at a player or deliberately making physical contact will be punished with five penalty runs, while threatening the umpire or any act of violence will result in a sending-off.

"We felt the time had come to introduce sanctions for poor player behaviour and research told us that a growing number of umpires at grass-roots level were leaving the game because of it," Stephenson said.

"Hopefully these sanctions will give them more confidence to handle disciplinary issues efficiently, whilst providing a deterrent to the players."

The controversial 'Mankad' dismissal, when the bowler can run out a batsman at the non-striker's end, will also become easier to execute.

Bowlers will now be able to perform the run-out "to the instant when the bowler would normally have been expected to release the ball", rather than before entering his or her delivery stride, as is the current rule.

Separately, gender-neutral terms like "fielder" and "bowler" will be used in the rewritten Code, as well as "he/she" to encourage women and girls to play.

"The term 'batsman' will remain, however, as it is seen as a term of the game that is equally applicable to females," the statement added.

http://www.skysports.com/cricket/ne...g-offs-and-bat-restrictions-coming-to-cricket
 
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I don't care about bat sizes, if bat manufacturers have worked out a way to con people into spending more for bats with bigger edges then good on them.

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Leave Mankading alone though, the only thing better than a Mankad is the reaction from idiots across the globe after a Mankad. A 95mph inswinging yorker or a perfectly flighted googly bowling someone through the gate cannot compare to the glory that surrounds a well executed Mankad. Even saying the word is fun.

Mankad.

It's brilliant.
 
I don't care about bat sizes, if bat manufacturers have worked out a way to con people into spending more for bats with bigger edges then good on them.

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Leave Mankading alone though, the only thing better than a Mankad is the reaction from idiots across the globe after a Mankad. A 95mph inswinging yorker or a perfectly flighted googly bowling someone through the gate cannot compare to the glory that surrounds a well executed Mankad. Even saying the word is fun.

Mankad.

It's brilliant.

Actually, they are encouraging mankading more now.
 
It seems like they're changing the MCC Laws to match the ICC playing conditions so this will make Mankading easier across the board.

Can't wait for the summer now, [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION] and I are going to be starting fights every weekend with a Mankad.

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The genius behind Mankad..

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i.e.

Mr. Mankad himself! :bowing
 
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Now people will come to know...

that the bigger is the bat, the more are the chances of an edge!

yeah, I've played street cricket and this is the case!

when you bat with a thin bat, you are more comfortable.

THE ONLY LOSS IS

the power hitting, that sit!
 
Finally, going to make next to no difference to the game but we'll finally get rid of all the people moaning about big bats.
 
By the same logic it will stop some mishits from carrying to fine leg/third man as well?

That's not logic as mishits also don't carry to cover or mid on.

The point is a false shot shouldn't reap you the maximum reward, it makes a mockery of the great game.
 
Good to see the rules over bat. Kohli needs to control his emotions now otherwise indian team will be playing with 10 players more often hahahaa.
 
I don't care about bat sizes, if bat manufacturers have worked out a way to con people into spending more for bats with bigger edges then good on them.

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Leave Mankading alone though, the only thing better than a Mankad is the reaction from idiots across the globe after a Mankad. A 95mph inswinging yorker or a perfectly flighted googly bowling someone through the gate cannot compare to the glory that surrounds a well executed Mankad. Even saying the word is fun.

Mankad.

It's brilliant.

It infuriates me that a batsman can try to steal an illegal advantage and keepers of the 'spirit of the sport' complain when they are mankaded. The guy wanted to steal an illegal advantage and got what he deserved!
 
It infuriates me that a batsman can try to steal an illegal advantage and keepers of the 'spirit of the sport' complain when they are mankaded. The guy wanted to steal an illegal advantage and got what he deserved!

Anytime someone busts out "Spirit of cricket" it's like a giant flashing sign signalling that they're full of crap. You don't expect keepers to warn a batsman that their foot left the crease before stumping them do you?

Don't leave the crease and you won't be out. End of story.
 
It infuriates me that a batsman can try to steal an illegal advantage and keepers of the 'spirit of the sport' complain when they are mankaded. The guy wanted to steal an illegal advantage and got what he deserved!

I've had this discussion with big mac before so I'm not going to go into a whole debate all over again but I always the use the case of the u19wc game where the WI bowler mankad a batsman who wasn't trying to steal an unfair advantage. The bowler decided his team wasn't going to win on the quality of their cricket so deliberately slowed down once the non striker turned to face down the pitch halfway through his run up with no intention of ever bowling the ball.

I'm all for cases where the batsman is knowingly.leaving his crease early without any manipulation from the bowler.
 
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Cricket umpires have been given the power to eject disobedient players while tethered bails will be permitted to protect wicketkeepers from eye injuries as part of a series of law changes coming into effect from October 1.

The new ‘Players conduct’ rule will allow on-field officials to remove a misbehaving competitor temporarily or permanently and award five penalty runs to the opposition, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has said.

If a captain refuses to remove his offending player, the umpire can award the match to the opposition. If both captains refuse to comply, the contest can be abandoned.

The MCC, the custodians of the game’s laws, also merged “handled the ball” offence with “obstructing the field”, thus reducing the number of possible dismissals from 10 to nine.

It also ratified the proposal of tethered bails to protect wicketkeepers from the type of injuries that ended South African Mark Boucher’s career in 2012.

Boucher was hit in the eye by flying bails in a tour match in England, which forced him into retirement.

“Law 8.4 has been changed, to help prevent injuries, to allow specially designed mechanisms which tether the bails to the stumps, thereby restricting the distance that they can fly off the stumps but without limiting their ability to be dislodged,” the MCC said.

The MCC also approved bat restrictions and allowed substitutes to keep wicket.

http://m.hindustantimes.com/cricket...ls-approved/story-CbX8lEihoEg0kUxqY9nAOJ.html
 
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