Cricket Australia Launches Ryobi One Day Cup 2010 to 2011

10.The new rules

1.Teams bat 45 overs in stages of 20 overs and 25 overs

2.Ten wickets per team across the whole match, nor for each stage

3.Each team's second batting stage resumes exactly where their first ended

4.Bowlers may bowl up to 12 overs each

5.Twelve players per side; teams can bat any 11 and field any 11

6.Maximum of two bouncers per over

7.A new ball from each and at the start of the innings

8.No powerplays

9.Fielding restrictions: Overs 1-5 = 2 fielders outside the circle; 6-20 = 4 outside; 21-25 = 2 outside, 26-45 = 4 outside

10.One competition point awarded to team that leads after 20 overs each; a further four points awarded for a win

Ryobi One-Day Cup fixtures in the interstate one-day cup for 2010-2011

OCTOBER

6: Queensland v Tasmania (Gabba)

8: WA v Victoria (WACA)

9: South Australia v NSW (Adelaide Oval)

16: Queensland v Victoria (Gabba)

17: South Australiav Tasmania (Adelaide Oval)

       NSW v WA (Hurstville Oval, Sydney)

22: NSW v Tasmania (SCG)

23: Victoria v WA (MCG)

24: Queensland v South Australia (Townsville)

27: South Australiav WA (Adelaide Oval)

29: Queensland v NSW (Gabba)

30: Victoria v Tasmania (MCG)

NOVEMBER

6: Tasmania v Queensland (Bellerive)

24: Victoria v Queensland (MCG)

26: WA v NSW (WACA)

DECEMBER

1: Tasmania v South Australia (Bellerive)

3: WA v Queensland (WACA)

4: Tasmania v NSW (Burnie)

    Victoria v South Australia (Geelong)

8: Queensland v WA (Gabba)

12: NSW v South Australia (North Sydney)

15: South Australiav Victoria (Adelaide Oval)

22: Tasmania v WA (Bellerive)

23: NSW v Victoria (SCG)

FEBRUARY

9: Tasmania v Victoria (Bellerive)

13: NSW v Queensland (Drummoyne Oval)

16: WA v South Australia (WACA)

19: South Australia v Queensland (Adelaide Oval)

       WA v Tasmania (Bunbury)

23: Victoria v NSW (MCG)

27: FINAL. Teams and venue to be decided.

New format hurts fringe players: Ponting

Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says he's concerned the new domestic one-day format will hamper the World Cup preparations of fringe players.

Cricket Australia recently announced domestic one-dayers will now be split into two innings of 20 and 25 overs, in a break from the single innings 50-over format.

Ponting said he was concerned that the new format would limit the preparation for some of the players currently outside the national team ahead of the World Cup, which begins in February in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

"We need to be playing as much 50 over cricket as we can with the World Cup just around the corner," he told reporters in Hobart on Saturday.

"It'll be OK for the guys that are in the national side, we'll probably play another 12 or 13 one-dayers before the one-day World Cup comes around.

"They guys on the fringe that are playing domestic cricket won't play any 50 over games really until that World Cup. Probably for the young spinners around Australia in particular, they're going to find it difficult this summer."

"The players probably felt that they didn't have the input that they probably would have liked to have had," he said.

"I know there's been a lot of speculation about how it's going to be played, but it's up to the players now to play it as well as they can and make it a good spectacle."

Ponting said he would likely play two Sheffield Shield games for Tasmania this summer, but would not play any domestic one-day matches.