Some weird and uncommon cricket rules

Only two fielders are allowed behind square in Test cricket

Fielding restrictions

Reckon that in the longest format of the game, there are no fielding restrictions at all? Well, there is only a solitary restriction in field placements for test cricket.

Following the controversial bodyline series when Jardine directed his English bowlers to bowl at the bodies of Don Bradman’s side, a new rule was established that only 2 fielders can be stationed between the 90 degrees anticlockwise from square leg.

This basically ensured that such tactics of fielding the whole side at catching positions behind leg and hurtling body breaking deliveries do not become the norm in Test cricket.