Assume India were X number of runs for 9 wickets down at 87.5 overs at 6:17, and then got all-out on the last ball of the over. Though two minimum overs remain to be bowled during the day, given the fact that 2 overs are taken out of the stipulated 90 at the end of an innings, and the fact that it's already past 6pm, and less than 5 minutes to go after the innings break, chances are the umpires would call it a day and start afresh the next day. Again, the umpires don't have a choice, unless they make the wrong decision. In the situation you outline, there have been 88 overs bowled. Add two for the change of innings and you get 90. As long as it's passed the scheduled stumps time (6pm), it's stumps.
And it's 4 minutes per over, not 5.
Slow over-rates are, I think, a phenomenon of the last fifty years. If you look at some scorecards from before WWII, you'll often see more than 100 overs being bowled in a day. (Though check to see how many balls were in each over.)
what the rules are in Tests for replacing balls, particularly in terms of whether they are allowed and/or do use previously used balls in the same match/series If a ball becomes unfit for play, or stops satisfying the regulations somehow, then it gets replaced with a ball of comparable wear. Where these balls come from I don't know - I think they come from balls that were used in innings that ended early in first-class matches in the home country.
The exception to this in Test cricket is that is the ball is more than 110 overs old, and it needs to be replaced, it gets replaced by a new ball.
It is not, as I read things, compulsory to take a new ball at the start of the second innings (you can keep using the one you used in the first innings), but I don't know of any team doing this at international or first-class level.
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Date: 2007-08-09 10:37 pm (UTC)Again, the umpires don't have a choice, unless they make the wrong decision. In the situation you outline, there have been 88 overs bowled. Add two for the change of innings and you get 90. As long as it's passed the scheduled stumps time (6pm), it's stumps.
And it's 4 minutes per over, not 5.
Slow over-rates are, I think, a phenomenon of the last fifty years. If you look at some scorecards from before WWII, you'll often see more than 100 overs being bowled in a day. (Though check to see how many balls were in each over.)
what the rules are in Tests for replacing balls, particularly in terms of whether they are allowed and/or do use previously used balls in the same match/series
If a ball becomes unfit for play, or stops satisfying the regulations somehow, then it gets replaced with a ball of comparable wear. Where these balls come from I don't know - I think they come from balls that were used in innings that ended early in first-class matches in the home country.
The exception to this in Test cricket is that is the ball is more than 110 overs old, and it needs to be replaced, it gets replaced by a new ball.
It is not, as I read things, compulsory to take a new ball at the start of the second innings (you can keep using the one you used in the first innings), but I don't know of any team doing this at international or first-class level.