What's a powerplay in cricket?

Question

What's a powerplay in cricket?

Answer 1

in an ODI there r 3 powerplays....Each powerplayis of 5 overs.... 3 of them must be used in the innigs...when powerplay is used only 2 players can be out of the inner circle....n in t20 there is only 1 powerplay which is used in first five overs only..........

Answer 2

playing with power is called powerplay

Answer 3

Power-plays are sectioned into three blocks totaling 20 overs (10 for the first power-play and 5 for the other two). The first power-play has to be used in the first 10 overs and is mandatory. During the first 10 overs (Power-play 1) only two fielders may be outside the 30 yard fielding circle and at least two must be in catching positions.

Power-plays 2 and 3 are pretty much identical to each other and chosen at the fielding captains discretion, only he gets to decide when to implement the power-play rules. And they can only be implemented at the beginning of an over, provided the captain informs the umpire. The same fielding restrictions of powerplay 1 apply to 2 and 3 (you can still only have 2 men outside the 30 yards circle) but in powerplays 2 and 3 you don't have to have the two players in catching positions.

A fielding captain can chose to use 2 and 3 pretty much anytime he wants (but he has to use them before the 50 overs is up), but its become practice to use them early as it's supposed to restrict the opening batsmen from scoring runs too quickly although in reality it doesn't at all, it actually helps them score more.

Answer 4

the fielding restrictions as per rules is known as powerplay

Answer 5

here's all the info about power-plays ................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerplay_(...

Answer 6

in the one day form of the game a powerplay involves the fielding side having to keep a certain number of fielders inside a circle which is rather close to the batsman. This allows the batsmen to hit up and over with less risk, scoring runs confidence, etc

Answer 7

in an ODI there r 3 powerplays....Each powerplay is of 5 overs.... 3 of them must be used in the innigs...when powerplay is used only 2 players can be out of the inner circle....n in t20 there is only 1 powerplay which is used in first five overs only..........

These replaced the 15 over fielding restrictions in early 2007.

Answer 8

playing with fielding  restriction