BCCI introduces demerit points for transgression ahead of IPL 2025 | Cricket News – The Times of India

MUMBAI: The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has determined to introduce demerit points for poor participant behaviour, sluggish over-charges and virtually all of the transgressions in IPL-2025, alongside the strains of the demerit points system which the ICC has applied in worldwide cricket since Sept 2016.
The determination was taken throughout a gathering, the place captains of all ten IPL franchises had been current on the BCCI headquarters on Thursday.
“A demerit points system, similar to the one that the ICC uses, will be in place in IPL too. The first offence will result in four points, which means a one-match ban, the second will see to eight points, which means a two-match ban, and the third will result in accumulating 12 demerit points, which means that a player could be banned for three matches,” mentioned a supply current within the captains’ assembly on Thursday.
Like within the case of the system the ICC makes use of in worldwide cricket, it’s the match referee who will resolve on the gravity of the cost.
It signifies that even when a group’s over-price is sluggish throughout a match, a captain could not need to face the penalty of a one-match ban — because it occurred within the case of Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya, who’s suspended from the primary match of the season as a result of MI’s sluggish over-price within the final match of IPL 2024 — if the match referee deems match.