OK, anyone able to explain the logic for me here? Yesterday at Lords we had Brendan McCullum coming down the wicket to Broad and co, hitting a pair of sixes and a whole heap more before Monty bowled him for 97. Now he's happily coming down the track and out of his crease, not least because when he's that far down it's near impossible to be given LBW. Why is this? Fundamentally I know it's because it's so much further between his pads and the stumps, but surely this should give the benefit of the doubt to the bowler, not the batsman?!?! The batsman is the one being crazy and outlandish, surely if a ball hits him after pitching in line and all, then he should even *more* at risk of having the umpire say it would have gone on the hit, not less...
Seems like this would really address some more of the bat vs ball inequalities too.
Or conversely maybe stumpings should be changed to only allow you to be stumped if you're still in your crease...
Friday, 16 May 2008
LBW out of your crease
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Benefit of the doubt always goes to the batsman, because bowlers are way too stupid to read and write, so that batsmen wrote the rules up.
Well that's super. I spend ages being a drummer and get tarred with stupid drummer jokes (What do you call an idiot who hangs around with bands? The drummer) Now for my cricketing efforts I now I get double tarred with the stupid bowler tag too...
And to think I'm actually a rocket surgeon by day.
I'm an all rounder, i dabble with reading, and dabble with looking a pictures.
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