Walk or not walk

[pom down under]

Stuart Broad was ostricised in Brisbane last year for not walking after he edged a ball in England the year before. Peter Neville has just been clipped on the gloves, but alas England does not have any appeals remaining! I will wager that nothing is mentioned about Neville not walking after being clipped on the glove. I wonder which is more noticeable to the player, clipping a ball with the glove or the bat?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I'll take your wager.

You mentioned it, so I win.

 

[pom down under]

Then he edges one with the bat and immediately appeals! Quite rightly he is given out. How is that not cheating?

 

[pom down under]

What wager?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I will wager that nothing is mentioned about Neville not walking after being clipped on the glove.

That one.

 

[King Pietersen]

Stuart Broad was ostricised in Brisbane last year for not walking after he edged a ball in England the year before. Peter Neville has just been clipped on the gloves, but alas England does not have any appeals remaining! I will wager that nothing is mentioned about Neville not walking after being clipped on the glove. I wonder which is more noticeable to the player, clipping a ball with the glove or the bat?

That one.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

The whole "Broad cheating" thing was a load of old bollocks, quite frankly. I'd walk personally, but how the Australian cricket team managed to convince the Australian public that Broad was some kind of pariah and that the Australian cricket team stood on some higher plane with respect to walking is one of the great psychological sporting heists of the modern era.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah that was when Lehmann had just taken over and was desperate to pick a fight. The outrage wasn't even remotely genuine.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah that was when Lehmann had just taken over and was desperate to pick a fight. The outrage wasn't even remotely genuine.

It was all on the wave of 'jobs for the boys' from the school of Steve Waugh after the booting of foreigner Mickey Arthur for being just too damn foreign as well. Dire from start to finish.

~

The non-reaction Nevill will get for not walking exactly what he should get and what Broad should've got. Two wrongs etc

 

[Furball]

You should never walk, players are not responsible for umpiring the game.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Shame the next test wasn't Headingley. **** bloke t-shirts would be out in force.

 

[grecian]

You should never walk, players are not responsible for umpiring the game.

Indeed.

What was annoying about the Broad, was not so much the whinging Aussies we know their hypocritical, anything to undermine the oppo ways, it was when who the Twatty Brit slebs weighed in saying it wasn't fair.

Everyone, from Lineker, The Governor, Dawkins to obviously the moron piping up on twitter.

 

[fredfertang]

The whole "Broad cheating" thing was a load of old bollocks, quite frankly. I'd walk personally, but how the Australian cricket team managed to convince the Australian public that Broad was some kind of pariah and that the Australian cricket team stood on some higher plane with respect to walking is one of the great psychological sporting heists of the modern era.

Broad is, to be fair, very easy to dislike

 

[91Jmay]

The whole "Broad cheating" thing was a load of old bollocks, quite frankly. I'd walk personally, but how the Australian cricket team managed to convince the Australian public that Broad was some kind of pariah and that the Australian cricket team stood on some higher plane with respect to walking is one of the great psychological sporting heists of the modern era.

It's because the Australian public have the collective brainpower of an amoeba.

 

[fredfertang]

It's because the Australian public have the collective brainpower of an amoeba.

With that single post you've just offended trillions of amoeba

 

[Compton]

You should never walk, players are not responsible for umpiring the game.

Yep.

Can't see why a player would ever give themselves out.

 

[fredfertang]

If you play low level club cricket, which sadly is all I could ever aspire to, you generally have your own teammates umpiring, and in those circumstances not walking is tantamount to cheating - I can see that it is different when you have professional umpires, and technology that might correct mistakes, but for me it still goes against the grain - if a batsman has feathered the ball and he knows that is the issue then he should walk - and I don't believe this bollocks about batsmen not being sure themselves- I have certainly never been in any doubt when I have got a nick, however faint

 

[Furball]

If you play low level club cricket, which sadly is all I could ever aspire to, you generally have your own teammates umpiring, and in those circumstances not walking is tantamount to cheating - I can see that it is different when you have professional umpires, and technology that might correct mistakes, but for me it still goes against the grain - if a batsman has feathered the ball and he knows that is the issue then he should walk - and I don't believe this bollocks about batsmen not being sure themselves- I have certainly never been in any doubt when I have got a nick, however faint

By that logic you should stand your ground if you smash it into your pads and get given lbw.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Who was it who said "You only walk when the bus has broken down"?

Can't recall the originator, but pretty sure he ended most of his sentences with "mate", making the outcry over Stuart jr from some of our criminal brethren all the more vomit worthy.

 

[fredfertang]

By that logic you should stand your ground if you smash it into your pads and get given lbw.

How do you work that one out?