From 2020 onwards, English domestic sides will no longer receive run penalties for over rate violations in the T20 Blast, One Day Cup, and The Hundred.
Previously, the batting side would be awarded six runs for every over bowled after the end of the allotted time, but from next year, fielding teams will instead be punished by having to field one fewer fielder outside the 30 yard fielding circle either for the remainder of their innings.
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In The Hundred, the strategic timeout will last for two and a half minutes and can be taken at any point after the 25th ball of the innings, which is also the number of balls that must be bowled in each innings to reach a result in rain-affected games.
Another tweak made in The Hundred is that the incoming batsman will always take up the end of the dismissed batsman rather than it depending on whether the batsmen have crossed before the catch or run out was completed. The intention of the change is to reward the fielding side for taking a wicket, by allowing them to bowl at a new batsman.
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Players drafted in The Hundred will not be allowed to compete in the group stages of the concurrent One Day Cup, but will be allowed to play in the knockout stages, while a white Dukes ball may be trialled in the One Day Cup. A red Kookaburra will not be used in the County Championship, despite suggestions that such a move would help batsmen in a bowler-dominated competition.
