IPL 2024: New match rule explained in 10 points
IPL 2024 will witness another significant change in playing conditions, as bowlers will now be permitted to deliver two bouncers per over. This alteration aims to create a more balanced contest between bat and ball.
The decision to implement this change was influenced by its successful trial during the 2023-24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India's domestic T20 tournament.
Jaydev Unadkat, a seasoned player with experience in various IPL teams, expressed his support for this change, highlighting its potential to empower bowlers and enhance the strategic dynamics of the game.
The Impact Player rule, introduced IPL last season, allowed teams to substitute a player initially named in the XI with an extra batsman or bowler, thus enhancing their strategic options.
IPL 2024 — New bowling rule
- IPL 2024 introduces a new bowling rule limiting bowlers to two fast short-pitched deliveries per over. A fast short-pitched delivery is defined as a ball passing or likely to pass above the shoulder height of the striker at the popping crease.
- Umpires at the bowler's end will inform both the bowler and the batter on strike after each fast short-pitched delivery.
- Additionally, any delivery passing above head height of the batter at the popping crease, preventing him from playing a normal cricket stroke, will be deemed a wide.
- A wide resulting from a fast short-pitched delivery will count as one of the two allowable deliveries in the over.
- If a bowler exceeds the limit of two fast short-pitched deliveries in an over, the umpire will call
