MUMBAI: The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has decided to introduce demerit points for poor player behaviour, slow over-rates and practically all the transgressions in IPL-2025, along the lines of the demerit points system which the ICC has implemented in international cricket since Sept 2016.
The decision was taken during a meeting, where captains of all ten IPL franchises were present at 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,” said a source present in the captains’ meeting on Thursday.
Like in the case of the system the ICC uses in international cricket, it is the match referee who will decide on the gravity of the charge.
It means that even if a team’s over-rate is slow during a match, a captain may not have to face the penalty of a one-match ban — as it happened in the case of Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya, who is suspended from the first match of the season due to MI’s slow over-rate in the last match of IPL 2024 — if the match referee deems fit.