5 Rules changed for upcoming IPL 2021 to avoid Controversies

The IPL has been making our summer awesome since 2008. Now the 14th edition of Indian Premire Leauge (IPL) 2021 is all set to begin from april 9. The first match is between Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB) and defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) at the M.A. Chidambaram staduim in chennai. 

During these 13 years of IPL many changes have occured Teams changed thier Sponsors, IPL changed thier Sponsors, Many players have been interchanged between teams. But now in the 14th edition of IPL some rules are to be changed to avoid debets among umpires and players.

Take a look at these 5 changes that have brought in for the upcoming season. 

SOFT SIGNAL

There has been many debets going on about "soft signal" decision made by on field umpires from IND vs ENG T20 series. However, the controversies surronding the issue, on field umpire giving soft signal while referring the decision to the third umpire will not be applicable in IPL 2021. This decision has been taken by IPL Governing  Council so that the third umpires can give thier best decisions without keeping the on field call in mind. 

SHORT-RUN 

In the IPL 2020, The short run had become a huge point of debate after the match between Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) and Delhi Captials (DC) as they lost the match and the season by making in 5th position. So now the rule changed, in case of the short run, the third umpire will now check the short run an can overturn the decision made by the on field umpires.

 

NO-BALL

As per the updated ICC and IPL guildelines, the third umpire can overturn the no-ball decision made by the on-field umpires.

SUPER OVER

Another updated clause in the playing conditions is that in an uninterrupted match, subsequent super overs can be played till an Hour's time from the actual finished time of the tied matches.

MINIMUM OVER RATE

Previously, the match playing conditions suggested that "The minimum over rate to be achieved in IPL matches shall be 14.11 overs per hour (ignoring the time taken by time outs). In uninterrupted matches, this means that the 20th over should start within 90 minutes of the start of innings. For delayed or interrupted matches where an innings is scheduled to be less than 20 overs, the maximum time of 90 minutes shall be reduced by 4 minutes 15 seconds for every over by which the innings is reduced".