One of the difficulties many parents of young children experience is the ‘false threat.’ “If you don’t tidy your room now you will not be allowed to go to the park at the weekend.” More often than not, the children ended up in the park, even if they’d just stuffed their used clothes into the cupboard.
QDK sniggering away after it said it all. Yes, the batsman should have been alert and not fallen for it... but of greater precedence than that is the fact that QDK should not have used the dirty piece of deceit in the 1st place. It was not a good look for cricket. The umpires and match referee were WAP in not applying the law that was brought in to stop this very type of dirty act.
The umpires and the match referee reviewed the incident on TV for over half an hour the following morning to see whether a retrospective sanction was appropriate. They decided it was not.
It was a brilliant piece of Fielding. I dont understand the fake fielding rule when batsman can change to left or right handed any giving time when a ball is being bowled, and quite rightly so the batsman should worry about whats ahead not behind him
It is a silly rule. It was introduced to prevent a cover fielder sliding to stop the ball, missing it, and them jumping to his feet and pretending to throw the ball at the stumps. A couple of batsmen were deceived in this manner which, personally, I think should be fair enough!
The point of the new law is that the batsman should not have to worry about a fielder faking an action. If QDK just stood there and made no movement to indicate that the ball was coming his way, then no problem. But he didn't do that. He very specifically made a 'fake' motion to make the batsman think that the ball was coming to the other end; ie. he very deliberately deceived the batsman. Hence it was a very clear breach of the new law.
But it wasn't a 'fake' motion, was it? It was an entirely legitimate raising of the hand to indicate which end to throw the ball. It may have been a deliberate attempt to confuse the batsmen but it's going to be very hard to penalise wicket-keepers for raising a hand towards a fielder, or the bowler, to get his attention...
QDK sniggering away after it said it all. Yes, the batsman should have been alert and not fallen for it... but of greater precedence than that is the fact that QDK should not have used the dirty piece of deceit in the 1st place. It was not a good look for cricket. The umpires and match referee were WAP in not applying the law that was brought in to stop this very type of dirty act.
The umpires and the match referee reviewed the incident on TV for over half an hour the following morning to see whether a retrospective sanction was appropriate. They decided it was not.
It was a brilliant piece of Fielding. I dont understand the fake fielding rule when batsman can change to left or right handed any giving time when a ball is being bowled, and quite rightly so the batsman should worry about whats ahead not behind him
It is a silly rule. It was introduced to prevent a cover fielder sliding to stop the ball, missing it, and them jumping to his feet and pretending to throw the ball at the stumps. A couple of batsmen were deceived in this manner which, personally, I think should be fair enough!
The point of the new law is that the batsman should not have to worry about a fielder faking an action. If QDK just stood there and made no movement to indicate that the ball was coming his way, then no problem. But he didn't do that. He very specifically made a 'fake' motion to make the batsman think that the ball was coming to the other end; ie. he very deliberately deceived the batsman. Hence it was a very clear breach of the new law.
But it wasn't a 'fake' motion, was it? It was an entirely legitimate raising of the hand to indicate which end to throw the ball. It may have been a deliberate attempt to confuse the batsmen but it's going to be very hard to penalise wicket-keepers for raising a hand towards a fielder, or the bowler, to get his attention...