What annoys you most about cricket?

[Jack1]

Batters not having the Cajones to walk when they have hit, or gloved, the ball. I cannot think of anything else apart from a select few “Umpires” at Grassroots level not giving Plumb Leg Before Wickets out (I do not expect Batters to Walk on Leg Before Wickets, it makes no sense - you do not have the correct perspective to adjudicate on your own Leg Before Wicket decisions). The same proposition can be said for Run Out decisions at Grassroots.

 

[Furball]

Batters not having the Cajones to walk when they have hit, or gloved, the ball. I cannot think of anything else apart from a select few “Umpires” at Grassroots level not giving Plumb Leg Before Wickets out (I do not expect Batters to Walk on Leg Before Wickets, it makes no sense - you do not have the correct perspective to adjudicate on your own Leg Before Wicket decisions). The same proposition can be said for Run Out decisions at Grassroots.

Batsmen don't get to stand their ground and play on if they're wrongly given out caught behind. So they shouldn't walk if they're wrongly given a reprieve, they're not there to umpire the game.

 

[Jack1]

Batsmen don't get to stand their ground and play on if they're wrongly given out caught behind. So they shouldn't walk if they're wrongly given a reprieve, they're not there to umpire the game.

Unless you play Cricket in the right spirit you are shooting yourself in the foot.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I took the attitude that I as a batsman will walk if I know I'm out if you as a bowler don't appeal when you know I'm not. Graeme Hick was one who always used to walk, but then he got sawn off so many times in India/Sri Lanka that he stopped and didn't even walk from a very straight forward caught and bowled off Murali. Poor old umpire Cooray's brain was so frazzled by cries of bias from the previous Test that he gave very little out in that Test. Nasser Hussain had a couple of very generous decisions during his century.

 

[subshakerz]

Test matches that seem destined for a draw on Day One. What a waste of sporting energy and spectator time. Honestly, may be better for the long term health of test cricket if every test could be forced to generate a result.

 

[subshakerz]

Leg byes are useless, why reward a batsman for not connecting?

I don't see why every umpire wicket decision cannot be reviewed. Why allow a wrong decision to stand? Don't see the logic.

Enough with these two-test match series.

 

[Immenso]

People uploading video of playstation cricket games into youtube. It is the work of devil, surely?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Batters not having the Cajones to walk when they have hit, or gloved, the ball. I cannot think of anything else apart from a select few “Umpires” at Grassroots level not giving Plumb Leg Before Wickets out (I do not expect Batters to Walk on Leg Before Wickets, it makes no sense - you do not have the correct perspective to adjudicate on your own Leg Before Wicket decisions). The same proposition can be said for Run Out decisions at Grassroots.

The opposite of this. Get given out lbw when you've smashed it, or caught behind when you haven't and there's nothing you can do about it you have to go. This happens 4 to 5 times in a season and then finally you get a call that goes your way and some **** says you should have walked!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Defensive captains.

 

[Chubb]

That I let it take over my life every summer and my performance each weekend affects my mood for the rest of the week.

Private school dominance of the England cricket team and the comparison between NZ and English school cricket, but I won't start ranting about that again.

Oh and of course the decline and fall of Zimbabwean cricket, can't overlook that.

 

[Jack1]

The opposite of this. Get given out lbw when you've smashed it, or caught behind when you haven't and there's nothing you can do about it you have to go. This happens 4 to 5 times in a season and then finally you get a call that goes your way and some **** says you should have walked!

You must be playing three, or four, times per week. If you do not want to play in the right spirit that is your judgment, man.