Coaching restrictions:
Coaching from the boundary or any other portion of the playing area or surrounds shall not be permitted under any circumstances while the game is in progress.
Protective equipment:
All batsmen and wicket-keepers are to wear standard protective gear, i.e. for batsmen, batting gloves, groin protector, and batting pads, a helmet is strongly recommended but not compulsory.
For wicket-keepers, wicket-keeping gloves, groin protector and pads.
Wicket Keepers keeping up to the stumps to any bowler must wear a helmet.
Dangerous deliveries:
Any fast short-pitched delivery reaching the batsman above shoulder height, or any full-pitched delivery reaching the batsman above waist height, when in an upright position, shall be called ‘NO BALL’ and can be called by either umpire. A fast delivery is a delivery to which a wicket-keeper would normally stand back to receive, in the opinion of the umpire.
No Ball Call
A delivery may be called No Ball as per “Dangerous Deliveries” above, the bowler overstepping the popping crease or as a result of a fielding restriction breach.
The bowler’s end umpire will signal a free hit by (after the normal No Ball signal) extending one arm straight upwards and moving it in a circular motion.
III. The delivery following a No Ball shall be a free hit for whichever batter is facing it. If the delivery for the free hit is not a legitimate delivery (any kind of No Ball or a Wide Ball) then the next delivery will become a free hit for whichever batter is facing it.
For any free hit, the striker can be dismissed only under the circumstances that apply for a No Ball, even if the delivery for the free hit is called Wide Ball.
Field changes are not permitted for free hit deliveries unless there has been a change of striker or if the No Ball was the result of a fielding restriction breach, in which case the field may be changed only to the extent of correcting the breach.
The bowler can change his/her mode of delivery for the free hit delivery.
Wide Ball Call
Umpires should call ‘WIDE’ in the following instances:
» any delivery that passes wide of the striker (standing in a normal guard position) on the off side outside the Off Stump, so far in that the striker would not be able to hit the ball with the bat by means of a normal cricket stroke;
» any delivery that passes the striker outside the return crease regardless of whether the striker has brought the ball within reach; and
» a delivery passing the striker’s stumps on the leg side without any contact with the striker’s bat or person shall be a Wide unless the ball passes between the striker and the stumps