Sri Lanka Vs Bangladesh Test Series: Schedule, Squads, Venues, Telecast Details
The 2025-27 edition of the World Test Championship (WTC) will kick off with a two-match Test series between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The series opener is scheduled to take place at Galle International Stadium from June 17 to 21, and Colombo's Sinhalese Sports Club will host the second red-ball match from June 25 to 29.
Najmul Hossain Shanto has been retained as Bangladesh's captain for the away series, and Sri Lanka will play under the leadership of all-rounder Dhananjaya da Silva. The hosts announced their 18-member squad for the home series on Sunday, June 15, and included many fresh faces.
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Hindustan Times
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- Hindustan Times
ICC introduces stop clock in Tests
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- First Post
From stop clock to DRS protocols, all you need to know about changes to ICC's playing conditions
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Here's a detailed look at the changes in ICC's playing conditions across formats: STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Stop-clock in Test cricket Stop clocks have already been in place in One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals involving Full Members since 1 June, 2024 and has been introduced in Test cricket starting with the 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle – which got underway with the first Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in Galle on 17 June. In order to tackle the issue of slow over rates in the five-day format, which currently leads to penalties in the form of match fee deductions, the ICC has made it mandatory for fielding teams to be ready to start a new over within a minute of bowling the final delivery of the previous over. The umpires will give the fielding side two warnings before imposing a five-run penalty. Additionally, the warning count will be reset after every 80 overs. Mandatory ball change after application of saliva While the ICC isn't permitting players to use saliva on cricket balls, which has been in place since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the umpires are no longer required to change the ball soon as a player from the fielding team applies saliva on the ball. The umpires, therefore, will change the ball only if it is out of shape and does not pass the ring test, or it appears too wet or it has more shine, the decision of which will be left to the discretion of the umpires. Additionally, the ball will not be replaced if it starts doing things after the umpire has deemed the application of saliva has not altered its conditions. However, in such a scenario, the bowling team will be slapped with a five-run penalty. DRS protocols – secondary reviews and combined reviews In the Decision Review System (DRS), the original call for a secondary review will be set to 'Out' instead of 'Not Out'. 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However, as per the new rules, the umpires will have to check the fairness of a catch to decide whether to award extra runs collected by a batter off the illegal delivery. If the catch is fair, then the batting side will only get one run courtesy the no-ball. If not, then the extra runs collected by the batter by running between the wickets will also be added. Penalty for deliberate short run The batting team will be slapped with a five-run penalty if one of the batters is found to have taken a short run – that is turned around for a second run without grounding his bat on the other side of the non-striker's crease. However, in case the short run is adjudged to be deliberate on the part of the guilty batter, then the fielding team will be given the choice of picking the batter on strike in addition to the five-run penalty. 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NDTV
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- NDTV
ICC's Big Rule Changes, From Stop Clock To DRS To Saliva Use
The ICC has introduced stop clock in Test cricket to deal with slow over rates while allowing fielding teams to decide which batter should be on strike in case of a 'deliberate' short-run as part of the playing conditions for 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle. The new rules have been implemented from the 2025-2027 World Test Championship which got underway with the first of the two Tests between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in Galle. According to the ICC Test Match Playing Conditions on the governing body's website, the use of the stop clock — like in limited-overs cricket — has been implemented to eradicate the issue of slow over-rate. "The fielding side shall be ready to start each over within 60 seconds of the previous over being completed. An electronic clock will be displayed at the ground that counts up seconds from zero to 60,' the ICC said. The fielding side will thus be given two warnings and in case of a third infraction, the batting side will be awarded with five penalty runs. These warnings will be reset to zero after the completion of 80 overs, the ICC said. Saliva Use Meanwhile, ESPNcricinfo reported that the ICC no longer mandates the umpires to change the ball once they discover saliva on it. The ban on the use of saliva remains in force. The website said fielding teams may deliberately apply saliva on the ball to force a ball-change but the current document available on playing conditions for men's Test cricket does not mention any such change. DRS calls The ICC also said in case there are instances of referrals being made by both player and the on-field umpire, the process will be carried out in a chronological order, effectively as per the order of their occurrence. The ICC instructed that in case of a second review of a decision adjudged 'out' by an on-field umpire, the default decision for the subsequent mode of dismissal will remain 'out'. For example, if a batter challenges an on-field call for caught-behind and is adjudged not out with the replays showing the ball hit the pads, the TV umpire would subsequently turn to see if the batter was out leg-before. In such a scenario, the default decision for this mode of dismissal will be 'out' and if the ball-tracking shows 'umpire's call', the batter will be given 'out'. Deliberate short run In case of a 'deliberate short run', the ICC explained, 'A deliberate short run is an attempt for batters to appear to run more than one run, while at least one batter deliberately does not make good their ground at one end.' 'Batters may choose to abort a run, provided the umpire believes that there was no intention by the batter concerned to deceive the umpires or to score the run in which they didn't make their ground.' In such scenarios, the umpire at the bowler's end will disallow all runs to the batting side, return any not out batter to his original end, signal a no-ball or a wide-ball if applicable, make a short-run signal to the scorers, award five penalty runs to the fielding side and 'request their captain to identify which of the two batters will be on strike for the next delivery'. The ICC said the TV umpire will now review the fairness of a catch taken off a no-ball. In case if a fair catch, the batting side will get an extra run for the no-ball and in case the catch is not cleanly taken, the batting side would get the runs the batters would have taken. In previous edition of the playing conditions, the TV umpire was not needed to look into the fairness of a catch off a no ball.
