Rules That Need To Be Modified, Added or Trashed

[benchmark00]

You are pretty much the only person I've ever heard say that it's a bad rule. Your opinion on the topic is so far removed from the greater consensus from my experiences, despite your straw pole of the local retirement village it seems.

 

[Furball]

Legalise ball tampering.

Abolish leg byes. You shouldn't get a run if you can't hit it.

Leave adjudicating no balls to the 3rd umpire (I belive Dharmasena is unilaterally piloting this scheme).

 

[Biryani Pillow]

You are pretty much the only person I've ever heard say that it's a bad rule. Your opinion on the topic is so far removed from the greater consensus from my experiences, despite your straw pole of the local retirement village it seems.

I am involved with very good level Club cricket - I will come across a good number who have played, or are playing, first class cricket during the League season,

I also cover senior cricket which includes players who, as I said, have years of experience of good Club cricket.

Not one supports this Law.

The fact is Smith tried it on in a Test and the umpires made a stupid call.

This is something that has happened through the long history of the game and has never been an issue before.

 

[benchmark00]

I am involved with very good level Club cricket - I will come across a good number who have played, or are playing, first class cricket during the League season,

I also cover senior cricket which includes players who, as I said, have years of experience of good Club cricket.

Not one supports this Law.

The fact is Smith tried it on in a Test and the umpires made a stupid call.

This is something that has happened through the long history of the game and has never been an issue before.

Oh never heard that you're an umpire before

 

[Biryani Pillow]

Oh never heard that you're an umpire before

Feeble.

But all umpires will, for now have to apply a Law which they, and all serious players, know to be a bad one.

 

[uvelocity]

lol at you supposedly speaking for all serious players. i dont think youd know which end of a bat to use if it was greased up, set on fire and shoved in your arse

 

[Teja.]

posters need a minimum of 5000 posts before starting a thread

6000, imo.

 

[Riggins]

Legalise ball tampering.

Abolish leg byes. You shouldn't get a run if you can't hit it.

Leave adjudicating no balls to the 3rd umpire (I belive Dharmasena is unilaterally piloting this scheme).

I agree with this. I think it either needs to go one way or the other. Either no leg byes or leg byes regardless if you were trying to evade or not or whatever.

 

[TheJediBrah]

No, it shouldn't be a no ball.

From personal experience when playing (supported by every batsman who spoke on the matter - some of whom are now in their 70s but played very good Club cricket when younger) the batsman is not put off at all when this happens. The chances of them hearing it are very small - and there will likely be other louder noises that won't put them off - and the batsman will be so focused on the ball that they wouldn't see it.

That is the view of some hugely experienced players.

I wouldn't be surprised if within a couple of years there will be so many complaints from all levels of the game about thi ludicrous Law that in will be reversed.

Yeah it can be distracting. Very distracting.

Either it's a no-ball, or a becomes a free-hit after the fact. No other options are even remotely serviceable because you cannot allow someone to get a wicket from it, and you can't deny the batsmen a boundary if he hits one (hence why it can't be a dead ball.)

 

[Maximas]

Nothing worse as a bowler than going up for a massive LBW shout, having it turned down then looking on as the ball races away to the boundary after flicking the pad and going through the slips as the batsman tries to flick through mid-wicket - no good reason why the team should get runs for that.

 

[Riggins]

I think the no penalty but no wicket from it a la free hit is good.

 

[Biryani Pillow]

lol at you supposedly speaking for all serious players. i dont think youd know which end of a bat to use if it was greased up, set on fire and shoved in your arse

You couldn't be more wrong.

Mind you, you're probably used to it.

 

[TheJediBrah]

You couldn't be more wrong.

Mind you, you're probably used to it.

Why don't you try and justify your opinion

Tell us about how it's fair for a batsmen to get out after being distracting from the bowler knocking over the stumps in his delivery stride.

 

[Biryani Pillow]

Why don't you try and justify your opinion

Tell us about how it's fair for a batsmen to get out after being distracting from the bowler knocking over the stumps in his delivery stride.

If a batsman is so unfocused to the actual ball that they notice the stumps being disturbed they are probably going to miss the ball anyway.

 

[Riggins]

You definitely have the best 'poster to avatar' fit on the forum.

 

[TheJediBrah]

If a batsman is so unfocused to the actual ball that they notice the stumps being disturbed they are probably going to miss the ball anyway.

That would be a good reason.


If it wasn't complete bull****.

Why don't they just make the bowler be allowed to bowl front-foot no-balls? If the batsman is bad enough to get out to the no-ball then they would probably have gotten out anyway.

And they should let the fielders yell at the batsmen as he's about to play the ball to distract them. Maybe give short leg a poking stick to poke the batsman in the ass as the bowler reaches his delivery stride.

 

[ajdude]

You definitely have the best 'poster to avatar' fit on the forum.

pretty sure that's me you ****

 

[Riggins]

I like Patto. I don't like you. Poor fit.

 

[benchmark00]

Hey Riggs.

 

[salman85]

Increase the number of bouncers allowed per over.

The game has become too batsman dominated off late IMO,and some balance needs to restored.Virtually every new rule you come across seems to favor the batsman,which needs to change.

The new 2 balls rule in ODIs for eg, is rubbish. The old rule was fine.