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  1. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Why? What's the important difference that would account for your annoyance? Cricket is a team game.
  2. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Oh, for goodness sake. The batting team, as represented by the batsman, is rewarded for his -- and thus its -- mistake.
  3. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Legbyes are always and by definition the product of a mistake by the batsman. They only sometimes involve a mistake on the part of the fielding team. But the party which is always to blame is the party which is always rewarded. That sounds pretty unfair to me.
  4. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Well, yes. That is what happens. But it's no argument for why it should happen.
  5. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    The difference is self-evident: Runs off the bat are only sometimes fortuitous or unintentional; runs off the pad are always that way. The solution seems self-evident, too.
  6. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'll drop David Frith a line.
  7. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    South Africa. And, according to Haigh and Kimber, Australia.
  8. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Oh, I hope I didn't sound grumpy or hostile... :-(
  9. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    I need to have a word with my childhood coaches!
  10. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Then your team is pretty exceptional. I see that Haigh and Kimber discussed the matter at length on a recent "Cricket Sadist Hour" podcast.
  11. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Because it's unfair to punish someone for failing to prevent the unforseeable. You can predict where intentional shots will go; you can't set fields for accidental deflections. Since when do we reward mere endeavour and aspiration? That's primary-schoolish.
  12. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    It's only a good leave if the ball is relatively straight.
  13. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Ugh. The nitpicking one encounters online. But unless you freight your every sentence with parentheses and qualifications, I suppose this is unavoidable. This doesn't answer the objection that the batting team is rewarded for a mistake. In fact, the only time you aren't allowed to run is when...
  14. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Thanks. That's very interesting. Will see what I can learn.
  15. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'm gonna see what I can do. Would probably be worth seeing if I can do it under the aegis of some respected institution like the ACS. Perhaps even CricketWeb?
  16. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Hell, I'd even consider fielding restrictions of a kind. I don't think the bowling team should ever have the option of shutting things down completely.
  17. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Why doesn't the same logic apply for the longer game? I'm not against dot balls, per se; what I'm against is the endless shouldering of arms.
  18. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    It's worth writing to some of those old broadcasters to see if they still have anything. Could probably also solicit some stuff from fans with old VCRs. My heart breaks when I think how much we've lost already.
  19. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Legbyes. Why do we reward the batsman for missing the ball, and punish the bowler (or more accurately his team) for having bowled a ball which the batsman has missed? Marking one's guard. Why's this necessary? It takes forever (especially when I'm batting), and on some surfaces can be bloody...
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I wonder if I'm alone in have noticed this: For a sport so jealous of its heritage and its letters, cricket seems incredibly blasé about the preservation of its film archives. I'm flirting with the idea of curating footage of old Test Matches -- in their entirety where possible. It's high time...

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