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New Delhi . Powerplay rules in cricket: In the beginning of the game of cricket only test matches were played. Due to running for more than one day, the attraction of fans towards Test matches was decreasing with the passage of time. Apart from this, results like monotonous draws of five-day matches were also causing a decline in the number of spectators in the sports grounds (stadiums). In this difficult period, quick cricket (ODI and T20) worked to infuse new life into cricket. With the advent of ODIs and T20s, not only has the excitement about the game increased, but the viewership and revenue have also increased manifold. Due to the change in the playing style of the batters, now more results are coming in test matches than before.
The first ODI in cricket was played between Australia and England on 5 January 1971 while the first T20 was played between Australia and New Zealand in February 2005. Talking about ODIs, first of all, Power Play was used in the 1996 World Cup. Due to this system of power play, more runs started being scored in the game and the excitement increased.
Earlier power play was of 15 overs
The initial 15 overs were kept for Powerplay. During this, the fielding team was allowed to have a maximum of two fielders outside the 30-yard circle. After the implementation of this rule, a lot of runs started being scored in the first 15 overs, but due to the slow pace of runs in the middle overs, the game started getting boring. Keeping this in mind, in 2005, the new power play rule was brought into practice.
New power play extended to 20 overs
The new power play is an extension of the old power play which was extended from 15 overs to 20 overs. Not only this, these 20 overs were divided into three parts – compulsory powerplay and two other powerplays of 5-5 overs each. The first 10 overs are compulsory power play in which the bowling team can keep only two fielders outside the 30 yard circle. In the second power play, the fielding team is allowed to keep a maximum of 4 fielders outside the circle. Similarly, in Power Play-3, the fielding team can keep a maximum of 5 fielders outside the circle.
Awarded to a power play batting team in 2008
In 2008, changing the 2005 decision, giving one of the two powerplays of five overs to the batting team, it was named Batting Powerplay. The main reason for this change was to accelerate the pace of scoring runs in the middle overs. Noting that some teams opted to use batting powerplays in the death overs, the ICC mandated in 2011 that both batting and bowling powerplays must be taken from overs 16 to 36. .
ICC scraps batting powerplay rule
By the way, after the 2015 World Cup, ICC removed the rule of batting powerplay and now as before there are three powerplays in cricket which can be used between 1 to 10 overs, 11 to 40 overs and 41 to 50 overs.
The first six overs are the power play in T20
Talking about T20 cricket, there is only one power play in it. This powerplay is used between 1-6 overs of the start. In this power play, the fielding team can keep only two fielders outside 30 yards. In the remaining 14 overs i.e. between 7 to 20 overs, the fielding team can keep its maximum five fielders outside the 30-yard circle.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 19, 2023, 21:59 IST
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