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Walk or shut up
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archie mac
International Coach
It's not like Warne did not like the decision and walked off the field as a protest, and failed to come back onto the field. If he over appeals then he can be fined
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
Personally i walk, but you cant really object if others choose not to
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
I don't walk, I need all the runs I can get.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Why would I want to score less runs than I possibly could?
Josh
International Regular
I used to think like that but I felt like a fair dog lol. Fairly often don't get umpires in our grade & league and I see some absolute shockers.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
cue pigs flying .....
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Walking is such a fascinating subject because those who sit in the "the Umpire is there to do a job and I'm not going to walk" are INVARIABLY hypocrites, and there's always one way or another that someone (eg Mikey Holding in a not-so-recent Sky discussion) manages to dredge-up an example of such.
Increasingly, I genuinely hope for a cricket future where a patently incorrect decision is a thing of the past, then maybe cricketers will give-up on refusing to walk realising they're never going to get away with anything.
Increasingly, I genuinely hope for a cricket future where a patently incorrect decision is a thing of the past, then maybe cricketers will give-up on refusing to walk realising they're never going to get away with anything.
PhoenixFire
International Coach
I always walk, always. For that reason, I get very angry with opposing players when they don't do the same.
LA ICE-E
State Captain
to the people who dont walk and want "as much run as possible" well then atleast dont complain when the decisions goes against you later. this is the kind of things that makes it tougher for the umpires...either listen to the umpire always and never show displeasure or anything about any decisions or always do the right thing and walk etc then you have the right to get mad at wrong decisions
Slow Love™
International Captain
HJC, how have you managed that? When I was playing competitively (at school and juniors) the standard of the umpiring was so poor that if you got rapped on the pads at all, you might as well just take your gloves off and start walking.I've never got a bad decision as of yet, nor have I ever been given out when I wasn't, however I have shouldered arms to a ball (incidentally was a hat-trick ball) which cut back a mile and skimmed the top of the bails, but they didn't fall off.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Hate to use a cliche but "its hard to get a bad decision when your stumps are are sprayed all across the floor."Slow Love™;1047772 said:
I've developed a technical error over the break I've had from cricket due to a break from cricket because of a finger injury, exams and holidays whereby I've got a complete lack of feet movement early on in the innings and recently cannot buy a run, leaving a nice juicy gate for any bowler with accuracy. Last two innings have been bowled for 1, and bowled for 4 (even though it was at the death). In the nets there's no issue, but out in the middle I've cracked in the last month or so.
Regarding LBWs and caught behinds etc., most of the time at my level we umpire our own games (as in two people of the batting team umpire their innings), however on the odd occasion I have had an umpire they haven't screwed me over yet.