Stop Clock’s journey before entry into Test cricket has been effective with fun.

Delhi: So now in Test cricket, the entry of stop clock has been made officially. On the issue of slow over rate, first brought stop clock in white ball cricket and now in Test cricket. The issue of slow over rate in Test cricket has been a problem for the ICC for years and it was not that nothing had done before. But the over rate is not slow, every effort for this, not to be affected, could not stop it. Fines on captains and players, even in WTC, the points were deducted and after slowing over the over rate in T20 and ODIs, in the last few overs, an additional fielder’s playing condition was made inside the circle, even then the search for the right formula for Test cricket continued.

When will the use of stop-clock start?

Stop clock has already been used in ODIs and T20 Internationals since 1 June 2024 and now implemented Stop Clock in Test matches with the start of the 2025-27 World Test Championship. You have already read the newly made playing condition and the most special in this is that the fielding team will have to be ready to throw the first ball of your next over within 60 seconds of the end of one over.

This means that the use of bringing a stop clock in white ball cricket in the board meeting in Dubai of March 2024 was somewhat effective, only then he has also brought it to Test cricket. Now one of the facts that the ICC introduced to its committee for approval of its entry in the Test is the most important thing that about 20 minutes were saved in every ODI since bringing a stop clock. In fact, some other games were brought to the stop clock long ago to prevent similar slowness and after seeing the benefits there, the ICC thought of bringing it into cricket as well.

History of using stop watch in sports

There is a long history of using in the sports of stop watch which has reached the electronic era with a simple hand -run watch. Other games on athletics used it for the decision of the race, to stop the slow game. In baseball, it was named ‘Pitch Clock’. Basketball adopted it in 1954 and named ’24 second shot clock ‘. It was given the most popularity by football and then it was named ‘Play Clock’. It was also used in chess and other sports. The intention was the same that time was to stop wasting so that the game remains fast.

Today, it is being written everywhere that the use of ‘Stop-Clock’ in official cricket started on 1 June 2024, but the truth is that for the first use of the West Indies-England 5 match T20 International Series in December 2023. Then it was called a 5 -month trial. Another big fun record is that the ICC had earlier used it as an ‘experiment’ in the second ODI between these two teams in Antiga. Then I saw that England did not start a new over within 5 times a minute, that is, they would have cut 15 runs. The West Indies made the same disturbance 3 times and also cut their runs. Seeing this, the ICC decided that it has to be brought in cricket as soon as possible.

In relation to cricket, let us tell you some special things:

• The third umpire will operate this stop clock and then it will come on the electronic score board in the ground showing the countdown of 60 to 0.
• In some special circumstances such as the wicket fell, the drinks were interval, something special in the ground for which the fielding team is not responsible (such as the ball is lost or the bat is broken), then you can stop it even after the stop clock is started.

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