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Two New Balls, Saliva Ban Lifted: Check All The Major IPL Rule Changes For IPL 2025

Abhinav Tyagi

IPL 2025 - (Source:@Johns/X.com)IPL 2025 - (Source:@Johns/X.com)

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On Thursday, March 20, all ten skippers gathered in Mumbai for the captains' meeting ahead of IPL 2025, that starts on March 22 with KKR taking on RCB in the curtain-raiser match. During the meeting, the BCCI officials raised several agendas and a long discussion took place on topics such as lifting the saliva ban. 

Saliva Ban Lifted For IPL 2025

In the latest events, there is a significant development as the BCCI has acted upon Mohammed Shami's complaint as they have officially lifted saliva ban for IPL 2025 according to a report from Cricbuzz. Notably, the ban was introduced during COVID where the players were banned from applying saliva on the ball as a part of SOPs back then.

However, the BCCI felt the need to remove the rule, and the players will be allowed to apply saliva to the ball to help it reverse swing. 

Further, there were reports that the BCCI is also mulling to remove impact player rule. However, it was clarified that no much meeting took place and the rule will stay in IPL 2025. 

2 New Balls Introduced In IPL 2025

The apex cricket board of India has further helped the bowlers to balance the game for the upcoming season, as the BCCI has introduced a new rule for the upcoming season, allowing teams to use 2 balls in the 2nd innings. 

The rule has been brought to tackle the dew issue as teams batting second had a slight advantage and the new rule would eliminate that to have a fair playing field. However, there is a stipulation that the bowling team in the 2nd innings would be allowed to take the new ball only from the 11th over of the match. 

Although, there are more conditions to it such as the umpire would decide whether the dew is enough to introduce a second ball and the rule is unlikely for the afternoon matches.

No Ban For Captains' On Slow Over-Rate

In a significant development, the BCCI has decided to scrap ban on IPL captains' for over-rate rate and have rather introduced a demerit-point system to tackle the issue. 

If a player is found guilty of a Level 1 offence, he will be charged 25 to 75 per cent match fees. A Level 2 offence, if exactly deemed serious, will result in four demerit points. The demerit points will be calculated for the next three years.