Cricket: No-ball if non-striker’s wickets broken

The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals that instructs the umpires to call ‘no ball’ whenever a bowler breaks the non-striker’s wicket during the act of delivery. This playing condition will come into effect on April 30, and the first international match to be played under the new regulation will be the first ODI between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in Bulawayo on Friday, May 3. “The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) recently decided to address this issue by introducing a new ‘no ball’ Law from October 1, 2013,” said ICC General Manager Geoff Allardice. “The ICC Cricket Committee noted the MCC’s decision, and recommended that the new no ball law, be introduced to international cricket as early as possible.”

Published in The Express Tribune, April 5^th, 2013.