For the 2024 T20 World Cup semifinal and championship game, reserve days were added.
The International Cricket Council, or ICC, recently convened in Dubai in anticipation of the T20 World Cup 2024, and reserve days for the World Cup’s knockout stages were declared. There will be set days for both the semifinal and championship.
In addition, for there to be a game, the team batting second must be bowled at least five overs; in the knockout stages, the requirement is ten overs. The qualification process for the 2026 T20 World Cup was also accepted by the board.
Notably, there will be 12 automatic qualifiers for the event, which will take place in Sri Lanka and India. Regional qualifying will allow the last eight teams to enter the competition.
Also revealed was the ICC’s stop clock rule.
Reserve days were set aside for the T20 World Cup knockout stage, and the stop clock rule was made mandatory in white-ball cricket. The fielding side must begin a new over within 60 seconds following the conclusion of the preceding over, per the rule. It will be up to the third umpire to start the electronic clock, which will count down from sixty to zero.
Two warnings and a five-run penalty will be given for breaking the regulations, each time. A few people do, however, defy this generalization. The umpires will declare the treatment of any player’s injury, a batter will come into bat after a wicket, a drinks break will be announced, and the fielding side will not be able to regulate the amount of time lost. During the meeting, the board held lengthy discussions about the sport’s future. ICC chairman Greg Barclay disclosed how they talked about the cricket calendar and the long-term future of the game.
“We discuss the long-term future of the international game at the ICC Board and Committee meetings, and at this set of meetings we spent several hours thoughtfully considering the structure of the global cricket calendar,” Barclay stated.
