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Dubai. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering making major changes to the playing conditions in red-ball, white-ball and pink-ball cricket and it can be implemented if approved in the board’s meeting to be held in Ahmedabad on May 30.

According to the report of Cricbuzz, the proposed changes also include allowing the head coach to come on the field during the drinks break. This change is mainly for ODI cricket, where currently only substitute players are allowed to enter the field.

The current clause in playing conditions states, “Any player carrying drinks onto the field must wear appropriate cricket attire.” Once approved and implemented, the head coach will also be allowed to enter the field during drinks breaks.

However, it is not clear whether the head coach will also have to wear the team jersey or not. In ODI cricket, two drinks breaks are allowed in each innings, each one scheduled at an interval of one hour and 10 minutes.

In international T20s, the head coach is already allowed to consult players on the field during drinks breaks for technical reasons. Apart from this, ICC is also planning to reduce the innings break time in International T20 to 15 minutes.

The current playing conditions state: “There shall be a gap of 20 minutes between innings from the call of time before the interval until the call of play at the resumption after the interval.” Teams will actually have less than five minutes to rest, regroup and strategize for the second innings.

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