Indian pitch doctors take their craft to a new low in Ranchi

A host of international cricketers will be forced to trade in their current bats

for slimmer models after the Marylebone Cricket Club announced :

an official limit has been placed on bat sizes.

A new Code of Laws to be introduced in October 2017.  :-[

"We believe the maximum dimensions we have set will help redress

the balance between bat and ball "  :-\

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'Ball will still go the same distance'

- David Warner.

who is likely to be among the batsmen impacted if the MCC's proposal

to limit bat sizes is passed into law, has said playing with a slimmer piece of willow

would not to make too much of a difference to his game