SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
2 fielders should be in catching positions in the first 15 overs of an ODI.
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If you could change one law/rule in Test cricket?
- Thread starter silentstriker
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SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
I would say not having to walk in when the bowler is running up to deliver the ball. The slip can be viewed as such.
Short cover, FSL, Short midwicket...
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Get your LO nonsense out of my thread.
Bijed
International Regular
Do you have a gut feel for how many of those draws could have had perfectly decent fifth days had such a day been available? I know this oversimplifies a bit, but it's a system I had a bit of hope in and wouldn't object to being trialled in tests unless it's shown to just lead to bad pitches.
Also, 2-4 good days of cricket >> 4 boring days and a decent finish so I'm not going to choose this hill to die on anyway
100% for this.
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
Get rid of 'hit the ball twice' as a mode of dismissal. What's the point?
Agree about the 'outside the line' thing for leg before too. And I'd like to trial allowing lbw to balls pitching anywhere. It would encourage legspinners if they could get lbws with their stock ball.
Agree about the 'outside the line' thing for leg before too. And I'd like to trial allowing lbw to balls pitching anywhere. It would encourage legspinners if they could get lbws with their stock ball.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
If I've defended the ball just in front of me, I can't then give it a whack. I think you'd find it exists for a very good reason.
Would reduce cricket to pace bowlers always operating around the wicket until the batsman inevitably doesn't lay bat on one.
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
Yes but why does it have to be a dismissal? Couldn't it just be a dead ball?
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Why not? It's about trying to very deliberately take an unfair advantage. You may as well eliminate the dismissals for obstructed the field as well by that logic.
Line and Length
Cricketer Of The Year
I have a problem with the suggestion to allow lbw to balls pitching outside leg stump. While it might assist leg spinners, I believe it would lead to negative tactics whereby bowlers would attack from around the wicket with a leg-side field.
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
Well for one thing it's not consistent with the law about secondary actions. If I play a forward defensive and then whack the ball towards the boundary I'm out. But if I stop the ball with my pad and then whack the ball to the boundary, it's just a dead ball.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I suggest you read law 34.1 again a little more closely.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Get rid of leg byes!
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
I actually tried to look up the law before posting but couldn't find the relevant one... I'm sure you are correct and I have just seen bad umpiring.
Line and Length
Cricketer Of The Year
This reminded me of an incident from my playing days. A novice cricketer took up the role of wicketkeeper in the lower grades. We would try to guess how many byes he would concede in an innings - it was always double digits, usually in the 20s or 30s.
After one game we checked the bottom side's scorebook and quickly rushed to congratulate Jim - there were no byes. He then pointed out the large number of leg byes. The umpire was ruling byes needed to pass outside the off stump and if they were down the leg side they were leg byes. "What about off the pads?" we asked. Jim explained that the umpire was giving them as runs to the batsman.
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GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
Games that are abandoned with a toss but without play ever starting should NOT count towards a players record
That one absolutely infuriates me, and has for as long as I can remember. Nobody should be credited with playing a game if there was no play in the first place
That one absolutely infuriates me, and has for as long as I can remember. Nobody should be credited with playing a game if there was no play in the first place
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
I brought this up because when I was playing U-15 cricket, we had to incorporate this rule in our matches.Get your LO nonsense out of my thread.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
_00_deathscar
International Regular
Given how much we like to **** on about WPM etc, I'm not sure they're being 'credited' with it. If only they knew...