MCC brings great change in catching the boundary line: What is it and when will it come into effect? What is bunny hop catch? | Mint

In a major development, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) made an update on the catch of the border line and also made the ‘Bunny Hop’ illegal in cricket. The updated law will be integrated into the MCC’s laws in October 2026, but this month in the ICC play conditions. The rule change by the MCC comes in response to the catches that seem unfair to cricket audiences. According to the new law, the catch will only be considered fair if the field worker, who is in the air, will touch the ball once outside the boundary line and return within the game field to complete the catch. To make it easy for the readers, if the first touch of the field worker takes them outside the border, their ‘second’ touch must take them back within the game field. This means that a field worker will no longer allow the ball to throw yourself outside the border long as they want. According to an MCC note distributed by the ICC to member councils, while the existing law “led to some spectacular” field efforts, it also enabled an unusual catch, which, for the majority of the cricket public, felt unfair “.