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Reduce ODIs post 2027 World Cup: MCC suggests to ICC | Cricket News – Times of India

MUMBAI: At a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to hold a key meeting of its Chief Executives' Committee in Durban on Wednesday to perhaps chalk out the men’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) from 2028 onwards, the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket committee (WCC) has recommended that "men's ODIs be significantly reduced following the completion of the 2027 World Cup."The committee has suggested "removing bilateral ODIs, other than in the one-year preceding each World Cup." The MCC's WCC, which is headed by former England captain Mike Gatting (outgoing president) and includes stalwarts of the game like former India captain Sourav Ganguly, Jhulan Goswami, Heather Knight Ramiz Raza, Justin Langer, Graeme Smith, Kumar Sangakkara and Eoin Morgan, met rece...
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MCC wants non-striker being run out by the bowler normalised at all age-group levels | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The custodians of the laws of the game, The World Cricket Committee of the MCC, want to see the non-striker being run out by the bowler normalised at all age-group levels besides calling for "calm" on the contentious subject.Last month, the MCC issued a clarification to the wording of the law following an incident in which bowler Adam Zampa attempted to run out non-striker Tom Rogers in a Big Bash game in January.The clarification involved changing the wording of Law 38.3 to deliver better clarity and dispel "misconceptions" on it.The World Cricket Committee (WCC) of the MCC, which met at the ICC headquarters in Dubai last week, is now calling for calm across all levels of the game -- from the grassroots level of recreational cricket to the elite level -- given that the act o...