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The Drama Thread
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ankitj
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"Lofted Shot <i>Ka</i>...": Rohit Sharma's Hilarious Response On Sachin Tendulkar's Statue | Cricket News
India eye their seventh consecutive victory when they take on Sri Lanka in their next ODI World Cup 2023 match on Thursday in Mumbai.
Such a fugly statue.
SillyCowCorner1
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Proper response, proper drama
karan_fromthestands
State Captain
Agree. This is stupidity. They need a stadium away from the city if we are to host any games around Delhi.
Adorable Asshole
International Regular
Wrong thread
Athlai
Not Terrible
Nah this is for the people that won't look at that match
RossTaylorsBox
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What are you talking about, Shakib was the guy who did it.
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The great Aussie opener's 2 cents on this controversy,
Molehill
International Captain
The stupid thing is, if he'd faced a ball and then his strap broke he could've taken all the time in the world to fix it. That's why it's such a stinking piece of cricket from Shakib.
I know there's a Champions Trophy place in the offing, but you're a real piece of **** if you appeal for a timed out for someone who's helmet broke. The guy made it to the crease, and you want to time him out for replacing a piece of equipment that protects the head from serious injury. Guess we already knew that about Shakib, though.
karan_fromthestands
State Captain
****ib has added a lot of fire to the SL-Bangla rivalry, they already have a history. Only good thing to come out of this thing is that both nations will try to lift their games and win at any cost against each other. For SL, this game is more humiliated than the double-digit scores against India, need to get their **** in order and come back strong. This is going to be very fierce rivalry.
If anyone's comfortable adding fire to the rivalry by being a ****wit, then good luck to them. A helmet potentially saves lives, yet Shakib wants to time someone out when one legitimately falls apart. Not a fan.
karan_fromthestands
State Captain
Agreed. That wasn't the right thing to do.
Bijed
International Regular
Yeah, the law definitely needs to be amended. I'd even argue it should be worded to apply only in situations where the umpires judge that wasting time could directly impact the outcome of the game - i.e. the situation (I think) it was intended for of forcing a draw when you're otherwise likely to lose by just not coming out. There might still be times in ODIs where it could apply - like if a wicket falls with rain approaching and the batting team knows they're still ahead on DLS, but will be behind if the next batter faces a ball and gets out before the rain comes, so they just take ages to get out there.
But even if a batter takes 10 minutes or something stupid to get out there and get ready, if those extra minutes are going to be utterly irrelevant*, I don't think it should be punishable by qualifying as a form of dismissal. Penalty runs or something if you want to punish it, but not being out. And that's ignoring the fact that this instance involved safety equipment breaking
*I know there's always a chance that a test match ends up as a really tense draw and you could argue that any time taken out of any stage in the game could have been the difference between the draw and defeat, but let's be reasonable
mr_mister
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