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mr_mister

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Cricket would get real boring real quick if mankading became commonplace. Itd be in the bowlers best interest to constantly go for it just in case, slowing the game to a crawl.
 
NotMcKenzie

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
mr_mister said:
There's a run up, delivery stride and bowling action. The mankading attempt imo should occur before the delivery stride(the final step) to allow the batsman to do a tiny bit of backing up. Normally the stride and arm movements(bowling action) occur at the same time or in one motion at least.

If it's extended to the ball release, the amount of backing up you can do is like, half a step. I'm personally not against backing up but for those who are I guess this is already too much.
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Delivery stride could be quite a long period of time (ever see Fred Trueman's?), and one can do quite a lot in a small amount of time—indeed, cricket couldn't work otherwise—and if one begins backing up with an initial movement from behind the crease as many players of, one could get quite an advantage.

I note that when Bradman demonstrated backing up in The Art of Cricket, it was one step, more-or-less pulling the bat out of the crease, an action that could be timed with a bowler's arm swing; and yet, he stated that backing up was an important thing to do as a non-striker to gain an advantage whilst running and slated somebody in a photograph who was leaning on their bat by the bowling crease about it.
 
NotMcKenzie

NotMcKenzie

International Debutant
mr_mister said:
Warne not so much but plenty of more composed and wise people have spoken against it as well.
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It's an argument from authority [? Something like that anyway] rather than the laws, and older players or former ones may have a certain inertia about them, not knowing the laws or preferring what they got away with.

mr_mister said:
Cricket would get real boring real quick if mankading became commonplace. Itd be in the bowlers best interest to constantly go for it just in case, slowing the game to a crawl.
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Scope for fast bowlers to do it is limited and if batsmen leave it that bit later, they won't have to worry about spinners (who also bowl slower, leaving more time).
 
Burner

Burner

International Regular
Daemon said:
Yeah NotMcKenzie/weldone’s interpretion makes sense.

I just don’t want the batsmen to have to watch the ball all the way out of the bowlers hand every single ball. Anyone who’s played the game would agree that it’s a bit of a pain and also leaves you open to getting rekt by a ball coming straight back at you. It’s never been a thing in cricket so not sure why we should add it now when it doesn’t offer much value.
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Why on earth would you have to watch the ball out of the bowler's hand? Just watch the striker. If the ball is bowled it should be arriving at the on-strike batsman, then you can run. This way a really good ball stays a dot and the batsmen don't take advantage of the rules and squeeze a single out of it.
 
harsh.ag

harsh.ag

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Tbf there are benefits to watching the ball out of the bowler's hand, esp if the bowler in question has lots of variations.
 
Borges

Borges

International Regular
I'm watching this, hoping (willing) for some batsman to try and cheat with the running, and summarily get Mankaded.
 
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