FIH president Tayyab Ikram, who’s in Chennai for the Males’s Asian Champions Trophy, made the official announcement throughout half-time of the primary semifinal between Malaysia and South Korea.
“The FIH has determined to placed on maintain and even abandon the trial of (new) penalty-corner guidelines, notably the format we had proposed. We’ve got deserted that,” mentioned the FIH boss.
“I’ve already instructed to have a re-evaluation on the additional choices, and we’re in massive favour to maintain the penalty nook in the identical format. If will probably be a unique change…will probably be with extra dynamic methods. However in any case we won’t compromise on any measure that may result in harmful play and which is able to problem the protection of our athletes,” added Ikram.
“There was no strain in any respect (to cease this trial). It’s a real analysis,” he added. “The penalty nook not solely enhances goal-scoring but in addition provides glamour to our sport.”
WHAT ARE THE CURRENT PENALTY CORNER RULES?
Within the prevailing PC guidelines, the injector pushes the ball from the baseline to the highest of the putting circle (generally referred to as the ‘D’), the place a participant dead-stops it simply exterior the circle, permitting the sparkle to pull it contained in the circle and unleash flicks that may contact speeds within the neighborhood of 120 kmph and extra.
With the hazard of aerial flicks hitting and significantly injuring a defender, protecting equipments like face masks, gloves, and so on., are allowed to be worn by the defenders, who need to then take away these and throw them out of the enjoying space after the set piece has both resulted in a objective or has been foiled.
WHAT WERE THE NEW RULES OFFERED FOR TRIAL?
To enhance the protection quotient, the FIH had supplied to trial a tweaked type of the PC routine.
Titled ‘5m Out’ by the FIH, the proposed rule said: “The ball should journey not less than 5 metres exterior of the putting circle, past the 5-metre dotted circle, earlier than a objective may be scored. The variety of defenders stays the identical at 5. All attackers aside from the preliminary injector should begin 5 metres exterior the circle (dotted line). No restriction on top of the photographs at objective as soon as the ball has travelled exterior the 5-metre dotted line and returned contained in the circle.”
