India, Feb. 3 -- Two things were overdue in cricket: cleaning up grey areas that keep producing "that can't be right" moments, and updating the Laws to match how modern cricket is actually played and officiated.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has now done that with a wide-ranging refresh of the Laws of Cricket - 73 amendments, set to come into force from October. Here are the changes that will most visibly affect players, umpires and match situations.

In multi-day cricket, if a wicket fell in the final over of the day, play could end immediately, leaving the remaining balls to be bowled the next morning. Under the updated Law, the over must be completed (conditions permitting), even if a wicket falls.

What it changes: new batters wo...