*Official* Big Bash League 12 - 2022/23

[Burgey]

Came down to that *Neser catch I reckon.

*M Neser

 

[Spark]

im pretty sure maxwell took the first version of that type of catch and then called it a joke lmao

Yeah I distinctly remember Maxwell taking a similar catch and it being manifestly absurd

 

[Spark]

*M Neser

I actually like Howard's genuine enthusiasm for the game (god knows nothing is worse than bored commentators on live sport) but he has some unbelievably annoying tics

 

[Burgey]

I actually like Howard's genuine enthusiasm for the game (god knows nothing is worse than bored commentators on live sport) but he has some unbelievably annoying tics

Agree, I like him too generally, and that’s definitely one of his tics because he does it more and more the closer and closer the game gets.

 

[Spikey]

im pretty sure maxwell took the first version of that type of catch and then called it a joke lmao

mixed it up. lalor did it first and maxwell said it's bad and then he did it himself and also said it was bad

Maxwell learns lesson to claim stunning catch

An outspoken protester against a similar catch eight months ago, Maxwell turned the rule book in his favour against England

www.cricket.com.au

I actually don't have that much of a problem with the two catches in the article. i'm not sure how you can write the rule to make those catches legal and Nesar's one illegal but uh give it a shot anyway CA instead of re-doing the timed out rule

 

[ashley bach]

Max Bryant must of really enjoyed watching that Josh Brown classic.

 

[honestbharani]

That’s an absolute ****ing rort. What a joke. Just run around outside the rope jumping up and juggling it for a full circuit of the ground. Appalling

what happened?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

video

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609515222712340480

 

[honestbharani]

I dont mind it when fielders actually do the first interception inside the boundary, I just hate it if the fielder is already outside the boundary and then jumps up and throws the ball into play and comes in and catches it or has a team mate catch it etc.

In this case, the second juggle does make it complicated. I am with Burgey and TJB here. I think that should be 6. Its a little different when the fielders catch the ball, throw it back in, go outside the boundary, come in again and take the catch. Here the guy is basically juggling it from well outside the boundary.

 

[Sunil1z]

That is 6 . Video is viral on Twitter.

 

[Starfighter]

That is 6 .

Not according to the rules.


In any case I'm fine with it. There's an acre of the ground not being used with the boundary rope being about ten metres (or more) inside the fence. Fix that and I'll have some sympathy with those who dislike that being given.

 

[TheJediBrah]

They need to push the boundaries back out. The Thunder/Hurricanes game the other night was absurd it was like a junior's ground

 

[Pup Clarke]

"That's a silky cricket shot there from J.Silk, one of the nation's great fieldsman" J.Fraser Mc-Jerk up there too for his boundary acrobatics for the Gades"

M.Howard (2023)

 

[thierry henry]

Don’t have a problem with the catch, but if they want to further change the rule I guess they could make it that you can only take 1 touch coming from outside the boundary (i.e. completing the catch, but not juggling or throwing it to yourself again).

 

[thierry henry]

….although that would’ve still allowed Neser to either throw it to a teammate, or even throw it to himself if he had time to reestablish himself inside the boundary before catching it. So I guess you either have to suck it up or go back to the old rule

 

[SteveNZ]

It's a very easily solved rule. You are allowed two efforts of contact on the ball and both the first and last must be effected from inside the playing area.

That would rule out the absolute joke that was the Neser catch.

If you can't take the ball in the field of play,and either throw it up to a team mate or to yourself after you regain footing inside the rope, it ain't a catch.

 

[thierry henry]

It's a very easily solved rule. You are allowed two efforts of contact on the ball and both the first and last must be effected from inside the playing area.

By ‘inside the playing area’ do you mean that their last step has to be inside the playing area? That would just be a return to the previous rule. Not that I have any real issue with that, but that’s the very rule that was overturned because of the perception that legit catches were being overturned.

 

[SteveNZ]

By ‘inside the playing area’ do you mean that their last step has to be inside the playing area? That would just be a return to the previous rule. Not that I have any real issue with that, but that’s the very rule that was overturned because of the perception that legit catches were being overturned.

Yeah, that's right. I could've made it much more easily understood and saved word count by saying 'old rule'.

The playing area was named because that's where the playing is done. The bit over that is the crowd. One side is for cricket, the other side is for drinking. Works much better if you define it as such and don't mix the two.

I'd go full under 8s tantrum and refuse to walk off if I was out to that Neser effort. I'd lose all rationality. That is so far off what constitutes, or should constitute a catch.

Out of lack of memory, what sort of examples were there of legit catches being overturned previously?

 

[TheJediBrah]

It's a very easily solved rule. You are allowed two efforts of contact on the ball and both the first and last must be effected from inside the playing area.

That would rule out the absolute joke that was the Neser catch.

If you can't take the ball in the field of play,and either throw it up to a team mate or to yourself after you regain footing inside the rope, it ain't a catch.

Yes that's what the rule should be, and exactly what it was. Never should have been changed. Crazy

 

[Pup Clarke]

That's never ever a catch lmao. Diabolical laws. J Silk denied the opportunity to take that game deep