Each year as devotees trek up 3,880 metres high to reach the holy cave shrine of Amarnath and complete the 60-day annual pilgrimage, many reports of deaths and accidents emerge.
The permitted size of the bat is now defined, with the width and length unchanged, but with added restrictions on the thickness of the edges (40mm) and the overall depth (67mm). Umpires will be issued with a new bat gauge, which they can use to check a bat’s legality.