Cricket Australia has made it obligatory for each Aussie participant enjoying worldwide and home cricket to put on protecting neck guards from October 1, if resisted then, they’ll face sanctions as per the brand new algorithm and laws to be launched by the apex cricket governing physique in Australia.
The adjustments in enjoying circumstances will make it obligatory for gamers that includes in CA-sanctioned tournaments just like the Marsh One-Day Cup, Marsh Sheffield Defend, Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League, and Ladies’s and males’s Large Bash amongst others to placed on neck protectors hooked up to the rear of helmets and it’ll have an effect on a number of star Aussie batters who’re fairly reluctant to make use of the protecting gear whereas batting within the center resembling Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, David Warner amongst others.
Following the tragic dying of Phillip Hughes in November 2014, CA has been urging gamers to make use of correct protecting gear throughout video games and apply periods so as to keep away from a possible mishap. One cannot say sufficient concerning the significance of the neck guard.
Just lately within the first ODI between hosts South Africa and Australia in Bloemfontein star allrounder Cameron Inexperienced was hit flush on the neck protector that was hooked up to his Grey Nicolls helmet and was substituted out in line with the concussion protocols. The compulsion to put on neck protectors is already in place in English home cricket after being launched in October 2022.
Amongst different 11 adjustments that may quickly be in impact, embody taking out the six runs that batters used to get for hitting the roof of the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne throughout the Large Bash video games. As per the brand new ruling, it will likely be now as much as the discretion of the umpires to determine whether or not to award a six or not. The opposite rule adjustments to return into actuality embody the scrapping of the COVID sub and a time restrict to harm therapies and assessments throughout a sport.
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