Muscat, (ONA) Today, the two-day training workshop "Basketball Law and its amendments," organized by the Oman Basketball Association, represented by the Referees Committee, will be launched today through video conferencing.

The workshop aims to introduce the new basketball game law that was adopted by the International Basketball Federation with the aim of implementing it during the next sports season.

On the first day, the workshop dealt with basketball court standards and specifications, the way referees sit and the bench seating, modern electronic control clock components and functions, the 24-second clock and its importance, along with basketball team specifications, team numbers, the way they sit in the court, and the specifications of the players ’clothes in the game.

The session also dealt with the explanation and detail of the players ’injuries, the new amendments in stopping the game in the event of falls and injury, and the specific timing of replacements of the injured player who is unable to resume playing, and conditions where the referee must send out the player with a bleeding or wound and replace it directly.

The training session touches on the team leader, his duties and powers, the specific time in the event of an objection and his desire to register the protest by signing in the match score form immediately after the match ends.

The session also talks about the coaches and their duties, including handing the team members’ names and numbers twenty minutes before the start of the game, and the names of the five players who are on the field 10 minutes before the game starts. In addition, the session clarifies their rights to guide and stand and who will act on their behalf in the absence of them, and their role in appointing the free player in all cases, in addition to the mechanisms for calculating playing time, draw scores and additional times in and between the two periods.

27 participants including male and female school sports teachers, university sports education students and those interested in basketball game from inside and outside the Sultanate are participating in the session which is delivered by Ahmed bin Darwish Al Balushi, Chairman of the Referees Committee.