Transcription: A picture of a bat leaning against some stumps. Superimposed on it is a Tweet from Iceland Cricket: “Name a rule in cricket that should be changed immediately. Why?”
it should be red ball. Far too easy for batsmen. Designed for uneducated crowds
there needs to be some more restrictions on playing for franchises. Blatant money grab, with the same 20 players floating around the Bash, the Blast and the IPL . Very cynical.
the same 20 players floating around the Bash, the Blast and the IPL
Personally I don’t care so much about that, but I hate even the appearance that any form of T20 might take priority over Test cricket for any players or teams. I don’t know how you would deal with that, but it was a vocal problem in the lead-up to the Windies’ most recent series in Australia (although they ended up performing exceptionally well, so the concerns may have ended up unfounded—I just want even the idea that it could be a problem to go away).
Oh interesting. I’ve never seen that suggested before. What I have seen is that after you do a coin toss for game 1 of a series, you alternate on subsequent games. Might achieve a similar result, without being quite so extreme.
You shouldn’t be run out at the non-strikers end if the batter hits it and it deflects off the bowler or other fielder. The bowler/fielder should have to have a degree of control for it to count as a run out, which could just be changing the trajectory of the ball slightly. But putting your hand out and grazing a finger is not enough
Not sure which rule it would be, but I think back to the 2019 World Cup final, and that ball that hit the bat of Ben Stokes as he dived to get safely back into his wicket.
Not only did he get there, but the ball went for 4, and given the extremely close result and the lateness of that over, it might have made all the difference.
Not sure what you would need to change it to, but it seemed very unfair to me that England got those runs.
Got me thinking, they could get rid of all boundaries that aren’t off the bat, would get rid of all the tedious replays where we are watching to see if the field erv touched the rope or not. Same for over throws the only get the extras for what they can run.
Upvote for the bold take, but personally I don’t agree. As far as I’m concerned, as long as there’s no insinuation that he did it deliberately, that’s just how the game goes. It’s no different from if the throw had gone wide due to a bad throw, or poor catching from the keeper.
Fair enough, but I do think it’s different when it benefits the person it hits.
It would be a tough one to rework though I think. And hands up, I like cricket, but I’m a relatively recent convert and I don’t want it all that often, so my opinion probably doesn’t carry much weight! :-)
I saw this on the Cricket Australia Facebook page. The comments over there are not very good. Some just blatantly bad ideas (first one I saw: “No more leg byes! You should have to hit the ball to score runs, not miss it.”) some that are not actually suggesting changes to the laws of cricket (“Mankad completely legal and regarded as a legitimate tactic of the game”).
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