{"id":40021,"date":"2018-02-02T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=40021"},"modified":"2018-02-02T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:43:34","slug":"change-test-cricket-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/change-test-cricket-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Test Cricket Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Test cricket will be of 4 days instead of 5 days.<br \/>\n(b) 90 overs per day will be replaced by 98 overs per day.<br \/>\n(c) The first session of the game will be 2 hours and 30 minutes instead of 2 hours.<br \/>\n(d) A four-day Test match will have an additional half hour of every day game.<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In December 2017, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced some major changes in experimental changes in Test cricket.<\/li>\n<li>Under this change, the term of test cricket will be reduced from 5 days to 4 days.<\/li>\n<li>98 overs will be bowled in a day, instead of 90.<\/li>\n<li>The start of the experiment was in day-night test match played in Port Elizabeth Test between South Africa and Zimbabwe on December 26.<\/li>\n<li>A four-day Test match will have an additional half hour of every day game.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The follow-on can be enforced with a lead of 150 runs, compared to 200 runs in five-day games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/cricket\/new-rules-for-south-africas-4-day-test-with-zimbabwe\/article22272413.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/cricket\/new-rules-for-south-africas-4-day-test-with-zimbabwe\/article22272413.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[2379],"class_list":["post-40021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smics","tag-sports-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}