New Rules will be applied to all ODI matches beginning today with the India Australia match. The rule implementation was passed by the ICC in June 2007.
The rules are:
- An additional fielder will be allowed outside the fielding circle during the second or third Powerplays.
- If a bowler bowls a front foot no-ball in an ODI, the following delivery will be deemed a free hit and the batsman cannot be dismissed by the bowler from that delivery. He can only be run out.
- If an ODI innings is reduced, the numbers of overs making up each of the three Powerplays shall be reduced proportionately. (wasn't this done before too?
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- There will be a mandatory change of the ball after 35 overs of each innings in an ODI; the replacement will be a clean used ball.
- The ICC had also increased the stipulated minimum boundary sizes for all international matches.