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During their ICC T20 World Cup Group A match against India on Wednesday in New York, the USA became the first team to be penalized under the stop-clock rule, receiving five penalty runs. At the end of its trial period in April 2024, the ICC made the stop-clock rule a permanent fixture in international T20 cricket. It was trialed in international matches beginning in December of last year.
The rule regulates the amount of time between overs, giving teams 60 seconds to begin the next over.
According to the International Cricket Council, a bowling team will receive two warnings and a five-run penalty for each additional violation if they go over time during their fielding innings.
When the United States of America committed their third offence in the low-scoring matchup against India at the Nassau County International Stadium in New York, they became the first team to receive a run penalty.
They have gone over their allotted sixty seconds for intermissions three times. So they have been going sluggish, moving sluggish, perhaps overthinking because of the strain in this game," said analyst Dark Rainford-Brent said. That might be the difference between two sides at times. India has performed that at numerous tournaments. With two victories, Aaron Jones is at his best right now, and with four points, he is close to the top of the group and hoping—or maybe overthinking—his strategy. In this format, you can't afford that,” he continued. USA was well on the backfoot when hit by the punishment in the match, with India on 76/3 and requiring 35 in the last five overs to wrap up the game. India finally prevailed, helped along by those additional five runs and Suryakumar Yadav's unbeaten fifty. In the T20 World Cup, the Men in Blue also made it to the Super 8 stage, extending their unbeaten streak. Dinesh Karthik, a ICC commentator and former India international, stated, "It is a new rule that has come up." "There's been a great deal of strain in the bowling crew skipper - India just pulled off it in the game against Pakistan, where they had two flaws and the third one would have been a strike. In any case, presently America have most certainly done this to themselves," he added. In their 20 overs prior to the match, the USA posted a competitive total of 110/8. India lost skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for single digit scores in the run chase of 111, as well as Rishabh Pant (18 runs in 20 balls, with fours and sixes). India struggled to reach 39/3 in 7.3 overs. After that, Suryakumar Yadav (50 with two fours and two sixes) and Shivam Dube (31* with a four and a six) put together a match-winning 72-run stand for the fourth wicket. Suryakumar Yadav took 49 balls and hit two fours and two sixes.