ICL to try new rules in T-20 championship

PANCHKULA (Haryana): The Indian Cricket League (ICL) will try a few new rules in the Twenty-20 cricket matches to be played in its inaugural championship to be held at the Tau Dev Lal sports complex here, 15 km from Chandigarh, starting Friday.

"We are going to experiment with a few new rules in this championship. Let us see how these turn out to be," ICL chairman and cricket legend Kapil Dev said here.

One of the new rules to be used in ICL's T-20 championship will be not to allow overthrow runs to the batsmen if the ball hits the stumps when a fielder is trying to run out a batsman. In case the ball hits the stumps in the run out attempt and the batsman has reached the crease, no overthrow runs can be taken.

However, if the ball does not hit the stumps, overthrow runs will be allowed, as per International Cricket Council (ICC) rules.