RULES & REGULATION

GENERAL RULES

Matches will be played in form of Round-robin. Every team will play against each other once in League.

Main Umpire, Leg Umpire as well as Scorer, all will be neutral (as decided by committee).

Each and every player(s) should respect the umpire’s decision(s) & shall always be considered as final.

This tournament will be played with RED Leather ball and shall be of 20 overs per innings.

Each inning will start with a new ball.

Power-play shall be the First six over.

Maximum 2 players are allowed outside 30 Yards Circle during Power-play overs.

After power-play, maximum of 5 players are allowed outside 30 Yards Circle.

Playing teams are expected to arrive at least 30 minutes before scheduled start of match.

Before toss it’s the captain responsibility to provide the playing 11 and Substitute Players list.

If there is any dispute raised to the committee, then the findings and decisions of the committee will be final and shall be acceptable to all the teams.

In-case of any conflict, only captains of both teams will resolve the dispute with umpires.

In matters of doubt not covered by the tournament rules, the decision of the tournament committee will be final and bidding upon all concerned as per the standard rules.

Any request for change of match timings/ schedule will not be entertained.

Three & half (31/2) hours is being allotted to complete a match considering 95 minutes per innings with one drink break of 5 minutes (after completion of 10 overs) and 10 minutes break between innings.

Minimum Seven (07) players are required by a team to start a match. Team reporting with less than 07 players shall not be considered for starting the match & shall be considered as walkover given to the opponent team. Each team shall be required to field at least 7 players (as mentioned above) on or before scheduled time of the match. Maximum grace time is 10 minutes else walkover will be given to opponent team. In case both the participating teams are unable to field at least 7 players within above allowed time, match will be abandoned with no points (zero points) being awarded to any team.

Rain Rule

In the event of rain during the match:

If the match is being played for five overs or more before rain starts, and time still left in the match after it stops & ground is suitable for playing as per the decision of the umpires, the opponent team shall chase the revised target as calculated by Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) method in CRICHEROS app, in the overs permissible in the remaining available time. Over permissible shall be calculated as per methodology given below:

{(Remaining available time as per schedule/ 90 minutes) X 20 Overs} rounded off to the next complete over.

If the permissible overs work out to less than 5 overs, 5 overs shall be considered for chase & the revised target shall be calculated accordingly by DLS method.

If the match cannot be started due to rain or unfavorable ground conditions or match can only be played for less than five overs before the rain started & cannot be started again, point shall be equally distributed among the two team and this match will not be taken for calculation of NRR.

In case match cannot be organized due to emergency booking of ground, that (those) match(s) will be re-scheduled after pre – scheduled league matches. In this case committee shall take the decision.

Impact Players Rules

All teams must try to give equal opportunity to each player.

In league matches:

A team is allowed a maximum of TWO Impact Player substitute(s) in a match.

After the match starts, captains of both teams can nominate any two of remaining players to replace two of the players in the starting XI during any of the natural breaks of the match. Natural break means start of an innings, at the end of an over, at the fall of a wicket or when a batter retires.

But if a bowling side brings on an impact player after the fall of a wicket or in the event of a batter retiring in the middle of an over, the incoming substitute cannot bowl the remaining balls of that over.

However, the Impact Player can bowl his full quota of four overs irrespective of how may overs the player he is replacing has bowled before getting substituted.

The player in the starting XI who is replaced by the Impact Player can play no further part except fielding, in the match.

Point system

For every win, team would get 2 points and losing team won’t get any points.

Walkover: -2 points to the team reporting for play (Absent team won’t get any points) and this match will not be taken for calculation of NRR for team receiving walkover. For team giving walkover, 0 run will be added to numerator and 20 overs to be added to denominator while calculating NRR.

In case of a tie in the League stages as well as Knock-out, there will be super over.

Rules for super over:

The team batting second in the match will bat first in the super over.

3 batsmen from each team can bat and 1 bowler from each team will bowl.

Entire fielding unit is allowed to field.

In case first super over is tied, second over shall be played where team batting second in the first super over will bat first in the second super over. Other rules as per the first super over shall be applicable.

In case second super over is tied, winner shall be decided considering the methodology as given below:

Highest Number of 6’s (main super over)- 1st priority.

Highest Number of 4’s (main super over)- 2nd priority.

Least Number of wickets fallen (main super over)- 3rd priority.

In league stages if two teams are tied with same points, NRR would be taken into consideration and the team which has a better NRR would move to the knockout stage.

Any points not covered above; all ICC rules are applicable as per T-20 standard.