3rd Test at the SCG, Sydney, 7 Jan - 11 Jan 2021

[Spark]

Tbh I think players should claim grassed catches in Test cricket, in the same way I think players shouldn't walk in Test cricket.

Yeah, especially with the way replays are, I've never really been bothered at all by cricketers claiming grassed catches, because sometimes you really do think you've caught it when you haven't. It's such a split second thing and you're rarely looking straight at your hands when you catch it anyway, so you're always guessing a bit, and the replays will tell you what you need to know regardless. At most it's mildly embarrassing, but I definitely get more annoyed at all the "omg cheating!" posts than the claimed catch itself.

 

[vcs]

Ponting's on-drives were pure s3x

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah, especially with the way replays are, I've never really been bothered at all by cricketers claiming grassed catches, because sometimes you really do think you've caught it when you haven't. It's such a split second thing and you're rarely looking straight at your hands when you catch it anyway, so you're always guessing a bit, and the replays will tell you what you need to know regardless. At most it's mildly embarrassing, but I definitely get more annoyed at all the "omg cheating!" posts than the claimed catch itself.

Yeah, if you're playing park cricket and the unspoken agreement is more or less "if you claim it then it's out", then don't be a ****.

If you can claim it but have the umpire call you a liar and give it not out anyway, then I think you're within your rights to try and get the rub of the green the other way too, in the same way batsmen do with edges.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, especially with the way replays are, I've never really been bothered at all by cricketers claiming grassed catches, because sometimes you really do think you've caught it when you haven't. It's such a split second thing and you're rarely looking straight at your hands when you catch it anyway, so you're always guessing a bit, and the replays will tell you what you need to know regardless. At most it's mildly embarrassing, but I definitely get more annoyed at all the "omg cheating!" posts than the claimed catch itself.

Omg cheating!

nah I reckon with the replays you can just go to the umpire and say you think you’ve caught it but aren’t sure and send it upstairs, rather than properly appeal like it’s been a regulation take

 

[Gnske]

Yeah, especially with the way replays are, I've never really been bothered at all by cricketers claiming grassed catches, because sometimes you really do think you've caught it when you haven't. It's such a split second thing and you're rarely looking straight at your hands when you catch it anyway, so you're always guessing a bit, and the replays will tell you what you need to know regardless. At most it's mildly embarrassing, but I definitely get more annoyed at all the "omg cheating!" posts than the claimed catch itself.

You nailed this on the head. Absolutey agreed 100%.

But why did Pant cheat when he claimed that catch?

 

[Spark]

Omg cheating!

nah I reckon with the replays you can just go to the umpire and say you think you’ve caught it but aren’t sure and send it upstairs, rather than properly appeal like it’s been a regulation take

I think he got peer pressured into "claiming" it tbh. Everyone around him behaved as if he caught it so he went along.

 

[Gnske]

I think he got peer pressured into "claiming" it tbh. Everyone around him behaved as if he caught it so he went along.

I don't know what's worse, calling it cheating or accusing an individual human being of having no agency or free will.

Taking it a bit far

 

[marcus1232]

You nailed this on the head. Absolutey agreed 100%.

But why did Pant cheat when he claimed that catch?

Hardly cheating not many people wouldn't claim it.
If I had a chance to get a set batsmen out I know what I would be doing

 

[cnerd123]

Tbh I think players should claim grassed catches in Test cricket, in the same way I think players shouldn't walk in Test cricket.

yee it's the umpire's job to make the decision, and the player's job to try and win the game.

 

[Gnske]

Hardly cheating not many people wouldn't claim it.
If I had a chance to get a set batsmen out I know what I would be doing

You would show honour sir and not claim unjust desserts.

The moral decay of some people on this board on full display.

 

[Burgey]

I think he got peer pressured into "claiming" it tbh. Everyone around him behaved as if he caught it so he went along.

It actually did look like that, didn’t it? I now blame cheating Pujara who ran over patting him on the back

 

[TheJediBrah]

Never really understood the logic behind people thinking that Ponting catch shouldn't be out. Now admittedly I can't recall the exact wording in the rules but why do you care if he pushes the ball into the ground after he catches it, when it's a comfortable catch that was controlled all the way? As Gob said, he never lost control and fumbled it on to the ground. If you take a catch and throw it up to celebrate it hits the ground eventually, why is that ok but it's not ok to catch the ball and then put it on the ground? I'm sure there's some gray area in the rules but just purely from a common sense perspective, that is a catch and there shouldn't be any doubt about it IMO.

Very different to the Gibbs one, which was a genuine out-of-control fumble.

 

[marcus1232]

You would show honour sir and not claim unjust desserts.

The moral decay of some people on this board on full display.

Been on the end of a lot of poor decisions so when you get the rub of the green you take it and run it all levels out in the end

 

[Burgey]

Hardly cheating not many people wouldn't claim it.
If I had a chance to get a set batsmen out I know what I would be doing

Are you Andrew Strauss?

 

[Gnske]

Been on the end of a lot of poor decisions so when you get the rub of the green you take it and run it all levels out in the end

It's akin to Trumpism not walking when you're clearly out. It's imbued with a general world view that is conservative at heart.

 

[Kraken]

the best was the reaction of (well I'm not exactly sure which Indian player it was), however they were on the camera when it showed the ball hitting the ground, and they celebrated like it was a legal catch lol

 

[Gnske]

the best was the reaction of (well I'm not exactly sure which Indian player it was), however they were on the camera when it showed the ball hitting the ground, and they celebrated like it was a legal catch lol

They wouldn't know what an actual catch looks like tbf

 

[marcus1232]

Are you Andrew Strauss?

FWIW I'm glad it was not out but I would absolutely try to claim it if I was in Pant's shoes

 

[Kraken]

They wouldn't know what an actual catch looks like tbf

this, but unironically

 

[Prince EWS]

this, but unironically

The Kraken has been released!