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I agree, in baseball do runners on base need to be warned before the pitcher attempts to pick them off?Zero warnings, there's a game on so why are you falling asleep at the wheel?
The attitude that the batsman deserves a warning is utter BS, since when did cheating or laziness become excusable?
Absolutely right. Lets get over it or should we introduce a warning for the batsman over being stumped?Zero warnings, there's a game on so why are you falling asleep at the wheel?
The attitude that the batsman deserves a warning is utter BS, since when did cheating or laziness become excusable?
Today i was halfway through my action but the batsman had left his crease way before so i warned him some people like to do it but i agree that it is fair even if there is nous warningThere should be no warnings. The rules are the rules. BUT the umpires should absolutely insist that the bowler doesn't contravene the laws by trying to mankad the nonstriker after landing in his delivery stride. Personally I think if the bowler has passed the stumps, he's missed his chance for the mankad.
Murali Karthik's run out of Alex Barrow should have been disallowed for example. That was pitifully poor umpiring to not spot that.
The other day a bowler stopped half way through his action and tried to "warn" me. I turned round and said "knock em off mate, you've entered your delivery stride so it can't be out anyway".
You'd have to be a pretty rubbish bowler to go for a mankad anyway.
Well possibly, although if you were still halfway through your run up and the non-striker was already half way down the pitch I think you might do something about it.
Being picky about it and trying to catch someone out is a bit dickish. If the bloke is 6 inches out of his crease its really not going to make that big a difference.