Question: Recently, some major changes were made by the ICC in Test cricket. Which of the following options is not right in regards to these changes?
(a) Test cricket will be of 4 days instead of 5 days.
(b) 90 overs per day will be replaced by 98 overs per day.
(c) The first session of the game will be 2 hours and 30 minutes instead of 2 hours.
(d) A four-day Test match will have an additional half hour of every day game.
Answer- (c)
Related Facts:
- In December 2017, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced some major changes in experimental changes in Test cricket.
- Under this change, the term of test cricket will be reduced from 5 days to 4 days.
- 98 overs will be bowled in a day, instead of 90.
- The start of the experiment was in day-night test match played in Port Elizabeth Test between South Africa and Zimbabwe on December 26.
- A four-day Test match will have an additional half hour of every day game.
- The first two sessions of play will be two hours 15 minutes each, instead of two hours, with a 20-minute tea break instead of a lunch break after the first session.
- The follow-on can be enforced with a lead of 150 runs, compared to 200 runs in five-day games.