David Warner is one of the most explosive batsmen in world cricket. Warner uses a very big bat and now after the latest announcement by the International Cricket Council (ICC), batsmen around the world will have reduced the size of their bats.
David Warner revealed that he has already changed his bat, and has had to go back to the one which he started his career with.
“Well my bats have already been changed,” Warner said on Wednesday (September 27).
Warner said that he went to his bat makers and told them to reduce the size to what he started with. He also added that change in bat didn’t affect his game.
“I’ve been using them for the last couple of weeks. In Bangladesh, (I was) getting used to it. It is basically the same bat that I started my career with. So I just basically took it down to my bat maker and said, ‘We just got to go back to what we started with’. It didn’t really affect me then, so I don’t think it’d affect me now.”
The flamboyant Aussie opener also added that there is a misconception that big bats clear the ropes easily as compared the old bats.
“At the end of the day, you obviously have to use what you’re given and it’s not going to make a difference at all,” David Warner said.
Here is the list of new rules accounted by ICC:
1. The thickness of bats to be reduced; edges will be limited to 40mm and overall depth limited to 67mm.
2. Players can now be sent off by umpires for serious or violent misconduct. This means the game of cricket will also red cards like football.
3. Change in Decision Review System. The teams will no longer lose one of their allocated reviews when it is deemed to be ‘Umpire’s Call’ though they will not receive top-up reviews after 80 overs, as was previously the case in Test cricket. The DRS may now also be used in T20 Internationals.
4. Tethered bails (bails attached to a string) will be used in a bid to prevent injuries like the one sustained by former South Africa’s keeper Mark Boucher and England’s Kieswetter recently.
5. ‘Bouncing bat’ run-outs to no longer be out, provided the batsman has ”continued forward momentum through running or diving” when the wicket is put down.
6. A no-ball will be called if a delivery bounces more than once (previously more than twice) before the popping crease.
7. A batter can now be recalled by umpires or an appeal withdrawn by fielders before the next delivery is bowled, even if the dismissed batter has left the field of play.
8. Fielders intentionally deceiving or distracting a batsman can now be penalised.
9. Bowlers deemed to have deliberately bowled a front foot no-ball will be barred from bowling for the remainder of the innings.
10. A batter can no longer repeatedly take the strike in the protected area of the pitch, just as a bowler can not repeatedly follow through into the protected area under the existing rules.
11. ‘Handled the ball’ is no longer a separate dismissal; it has been incorporated into the ‘obstructing the field’ law.
12. The number of named substitutes for international teams has been increased from four to six
13. Breaks in play ( lunch or tea interval) are to be taken if a wicket falls within three minutes of an interval (previously two minutes).
14. In a rain-shortened match where an innings is reduced to 10 overs or less, a bowler’s maximum quota of overs won’t be reduced to less than two.
15. Byes and leg byes off no-balls to now be scored separately. Previously byes or leg byes off no-balls were all recorded as no-balls.
16. Fielders making their first contact with the ball need to have taken off from within the boundary during boundary catches.
