bowser
School Cricketer
Watching the game between Sri Lanka and the WI when the absolute worst umpiring decision I have ever seen was made. A ball gets hit over the boundary, a player juggles it in the field of play and realising he is going out throws it in the air. No problem there. He then takes several paces outside the rope, and while still out of play jumps in the air and knocks the ball back infield and then falls to the ground outside the ropes. The ball landed in the field of play and somehow the blind man with the authority (hopefully he has since been sacked) decides that this isn't a boundary. How in the heck could he come up with that? I can just accept a fieldsman juggling the ball and throwing it in the air before going over the rope, then running back infield to catch it or to pick it up but this guy was of the field, jumped in the air from of the field and landed of the field. It doesn't matter that he was in the air, he wasn't in the field when he jumped.
Theoretically this means that you can blast a six out of the ground, a super quick player can run through the gate, get under the ball, jump in the air and catch the ball and before landing throw it back into the ground to be caught by someone standing in the field of play and with this precedence you would have to give the batsman out. This scenario is rubbish but no more so then the rubbish decision.
We might have a new fielding position in this hit and giggle cricket, row 13. Sit in the stand at cow corner to throw sixes back into the field.
Theoretically this means that you can blast a six out of the ground, a super quick player can run through the gate, get under the ball, jump in the air and catch the ball and before landing throw it back into the ground to be caught by someone standing in the field of play and with this precedence you would have to give the batsman out. This scenario is rubbish but no more so then the rubbish decision.
We might have a new fielding position in this hit and giggle cricket, row 13. Sit in the stand at cow corner to throw sixes back into the field.