Newsinc24 Team The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), custodian of cricket laws, announced its new code of laws for 2022, making significant changes for the first time since 2017; the implementation of this will take place from October 1, 2022. The MCC has ratified as many as nine rule changes. As per the one of the changed new norm , the new batter will be on strike even if the players cross when the catch is taken. Also, there’s a permanent ban on the use of saliva to shine the ball and reframed the law around the running out the non-striker while backing up.
Some of the changes include: Replacement Players (Law 1), Batters returning when Caught (Law 18), Dead ball (Law 20.4.2.12), Bowler throwing towards striker’s end before delivery(Law 21.4), Judging a Wide(Law 22.1), strikers’ right to play the ball (Law 25.8), unfair movement by the fielding side (Laws 27.4 and 28.6), moving the running out of the non-striker (Law 38.3), and no saliva (Law 41.3), a law which bans the use of saliva on the ball. An updated code of the Laws was approved by the MCC's main committee this week.
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