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West Indies v Bangladesh at the Magnificent Sharjah Cricket Stadium, WIN OR GO HOME-- 23rd Match, 10/29 Friday (D)
- Thread starter SillyCowCorner1
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AndyZaltzHair
Hall of Fame Member
This last over can prove to be costly
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Shakib is hobbling
Aritro
International Regular
At the very least, lend him your mask while we sort the mobil ?
Tiberius
Cricket Spectator
Jokes aside, isn't he entitled to a runner? Or is this something from the distant past?
Aritro
International Regular
They've been done away with yeah. It's a bad rule IMO. If you're going to discard runners, there should at least be a substitute allowed
Victor Ian
International Coach
I could never understand the runner rule. If you cant run, you cant have a run.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
The number 1 test allrounder catches the number 4
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bad idea, for the same reason that runners were done away with. It would be massively abused. Retired hurt is an option, and maybe try being fitter next time.
Victor Ian
International Coach
Maybe allow a runner or sub, but you are out for the next game, Doesn't solve finals though.
Aritro
International Regular
Cricket's the only sport I can think of where you go a man down when someone's injured mid-game. It shouldn't be possible for a team to be all but defeated when someone gets injured during an athletic contest.
Bring back the runner in that case. A fat **** stealing a very small number of runs he couldn't have run himself isn't enough reason to do away with it.
Bring back the runner in that case. A fat **** stealing a very small number of runs he couldn't have run himself isn't enough reason to do away with it.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
This is the value of Jason Holder
Victor Ian
International Coach
Yes it is. Part of batting is dealing with the fatigue.
a number of sports have injury being the death knell. Tennis, Beach Volleyball, to name a couple.
Aritro
International Regular
Lol, yeah "team sports", I probably should have clarified. Obviously if you're the only tennis player, and you get injured, it's tough to bring in a replacement.
Although I suppose you meant doubles?
Otherwise we could include the sprints, long-jump, high-jump, shotput... the luge as well. Also the skeleton. Fortunately, the latter is not a particularly dangerous sport so it would never happen.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
You'll probably find that those sports allowing injury subs usually allow regular subs as well. Cricket simply isn't conducted the same way as the football codes, baseball or basketball, all of which have substitutions as a regular feature, not just for injuries.
Why wasn't he in the side initially.?