Should International Batsmen Walk?

[umop 3p!sdn]

Should they walk or should they let the umpires decide? Obviously I play at a lower level of cricket, but I always walk that's the way it has always been if I am out then I walk.

 

[Prince EWS]

If they want to: yes.
If they don't: no.

I don't hold it against them either way.

 

[andyc]

If they want to, yes.
If they don't, no.

I don't hold it against them either way,

Sums it up perfectly for mine.

 

[Chubby Rain]

Well, you can't have them driving around in golf carts on the field. They'd better walk.

 

[umop 3p!sdn]

I know when I played lower league club cricket I was always told to walk but that may have been down to member of my team umpired for our innings.

 

[gettingbetter]

Would you turn yourself in to the police if you were speeding?

 

[Richard]

Been done hundreds of times before of course, but here are a few of them.

 

[Johnners]

Well, you can't have them driving around in golf carts on the field. They'd better walk.

awta

 

[Jono]

Lol, Chubby Rain has made an immediate impact on the boards.

 

[Prince EWS]

Lol, Chubby Rain has made an immediate impact on the boards.

Strange name, bloody good fly spray.

Err... forumer.

 

[Athlai]

Short answer no.

Long answer yes but not always.

 

[sledger]

Umpires decision imo, on the basis that....you could be given out by an umpire for 3 innings in a row incorrectly...but then feather one through to the keeper but the umpire misses it....

these decisions balance themselves out over time, obey the umpire says i.

 

[howardj]

No.

 

[sledger]

i was always taught to respect and obey the decision of the umpire without question.

 

[Richard]

No-one should ever preach otherwise.

However, there's no reason at all not to walk if you nick one if you feel that is right. And I do, personally. So did many in bygone days. Sadly, less at the current time.

 

[andyc]

However, there's no reason at all not to walk if you nick one if you feel that is right. And I do, personally. So did many in bygone days. Sadly, less at the current time.

Just a bit of rose tinted glasses there, Rich?

 

[Richard]

I never said everyone walked did I? UIMM it's always been tradition in Australia to try and get away with everything you can, and only a relatively small number have broken that mould.

 

[umop 3p!sdn]

If I play with proper umpires then I won't walk, but I just think it's not nice to put you team mates under uneccessary pressure when they are umpiring.

 

[pup11]

I think its a personal preference and decision whether an individual wants to walk or not, in international cricket somedays some decision go your way somedays they go against you so its a part and parcel of the game, there is an umpire to make the decisions and whatever decision he makes should be accepted by the players.

 

[nightprowler10]

If you're given, then yeah you probably should.