It became endemic in world cricket - Aus being by far the worst offenders - a couple of years ago, but thankfully that seems to have passed, I can't remember it being much of a thing lately. There's motioning to throw to force the batsman back in his crease, but very little actual throwing.
Haha, yep, 2nd Test. I recall Inzi having a long chat with Afridi before the ball, and the stump mic on the other end picking up Inzi saying "kya yaar" (really mate) when he was bowled.
Inzi really has the most hilarious stories of all cricketers I have read about.
Well the 2nd one was definitely out, can't really complain about that. You obviously can't be out of your crease and block a throw at the stumps
So I just checked the thread on this and it turns out it was really just me abusing the **** out of McCullum for being a prick and several people coming to his defence
Poor Jimmy, posting on here as a teenager who is talented at cricket is a decision he probably cringes at.
If it's the incident I'm thinking of, Stokes was out obstructing the field. He sort-of span around and threw his hands up, basically to protect himself from being killed, and one of his hands stopped the ball.
That one was definitely out as well. Ball was not going to hit him, and was going close to the stumps and he thrust his hand at full stretch away from his body to block the ball.
And yet the post in question is a perfect piece of character analysis, remarkable given he hadn’t even met McCullum yet
“Generally speaking but”
When your argument is the spirit of the game then others highlighting any example of your behaviour contradicting your argument is fair.
Oh under the rules it was definitely out; Starc could plausibly claim he was trying to run Stokes out (as he was out of the crease) but Stokes was absolutely just trying to defend himself rather than obstructing the field. The solution there though is to change the laws to put it in the umpires' hands to decide whether he was legitimately protecting himself or obstructing the field, not putting on the fielding captain to withdraw the appeal.
Lol the mods should probably hide that, could get awkward if someone found it.Neesh on McCullum:
"This isn't my opinion as I've never met the guy. But the subject has come up a lot while talking to people who have worked with him. He's generally regarded as an arrogant, self-obsessed dickhead. When I say generally, I mean that not one person has had a contrasting opinion."
I saw a bowler get a wicket on a windy day when the batsman's hat blew off and hit his stumps while he was playing a solid defensive shot.
Everyone on CW has the highest integrity and has definitely never before dragged forum stuff into real life for the drama.
