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Originally Posted by jambutty
In the recent 20/20 match a New Zealand batsman collided with Sidebottom and both hit the deck. Meanwhile the ball was returned to the stumps and the batsman was run out. Then uproar.
The umpire asked Paul Collingwood if he wanted to withdraw the appeal. Collingwood declined and thus the batsman was declared out. The sporting thing to do was to withdraw the appeal.
To be fair Collingwood did apologise later and the apology was accepted with good grace.
As it turned out it was all academic because New Zealand won on an overthrow off the last ball. Poetic justice I reckon.
However the real point is, why isn’t there a law to cover this eventuality because such an incident has happened before? I know that bowlers generally try and get out of the way of a running batsman but some have been known to stand their ground sort of accidentally.
Something like “If a batsman and fielder/bowler collide whilst the batsman is attempting a run and is thus prevented from completing the run or returning to his crease, the ball should be declared dead.”
Or is that too simple for the cricket authorities to grasp?
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The reason there is no exact law to cover this type of insident is that cricket is played by gentlemen, allegedly, I think these laws were introduced before the Aussies began playing the game
