Cricket's Stop Clock and the Penalties Fans Keep Misreading

A 60-second stop clock between overs: two warnings an innings, then 5 runs given to the batting side.

Miss the final-over cut-off and the fielding captain loses a fielder outside the circle for the rest of the innings.

Tests now run the stop clock too, from the 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle.

Slow over-rates still cost match fees and, in the WTC, league points — two layers of punishment.

Trials showed roughly 20 minutes saved per ODI once the clock went live.