T20 an idea, which was furnished a definite structure in 2001, by England and Wales’s cricket board, who desperately were looking, for some lifeline, to salvage the dwindling popularity of cricket has become a toast of cricket, where it has evolved into such a dynamic state of building a multimillion dollar world cup.
Many people have a prejudice that rules for T20 are parallel, to fifty over format, but there are titanic difference ranging from rules to fielding restriction in both the formats of game, so its better you get evinced with it, before start of T20 world cup in England, so that you can flaunt your knowledge, in your cricketing circles.
In this article, we will shuttle through few of difference, which T20 has compared, to fifty over format. In terms of rules
T 20 is all about time and if either of a umpire believes, that a team is wasting unnecessary time, they can award a five run penalty.
In a normal T 20 games interval between the innings both innings last for exactly fifteen minutes, however if over’s are reduced then it can be further curtailed, to even ten minutes.
In a single innings, each of the bowler can get to bowl maximum of one fifth of total overs (i. e.) 4 overs per twenty overs.
To calculate a team’s net run – rate, average runs scored by that team is deducted by the average runs scored against it. It can be pivotal to distinguish teams, if they are in same position in points table.
At any time of the innings there can be only maximum of five players in leg side.
First six over of the innings, fielding team should have not more than two players outside the thirty yards mark.
Both the teams, must finish their bowling within stipulated seventy five minutes and if bowling teams exceeds the seventy five minutes, for each of a extra over bowled, by the team extra six runs will be added ,to the batting team score. If umpired believe that batting team is wasting time, he can deduce the scores accordingly.
Contrary to ODI format, T20 cannot end in a tie; if both teams are levelled in scores, at the end of the innings, then the match would be decided, by a super over, where each team will send three batsmen and a bowler, to decide the result of match in a solitary over and will have have services of eleven players to decide on outcome of the match.
So you are more than prepared to be termed as ICC T20 expert and become a cynosure in this T20 world cup in England this June.?