Commonwealth Bank Series Feb-Mar 2011/12

[SLICKR392]

I'm tired of facetious pouting about the laws that clearly few people have actually read.

Looks like someone here was including while making those rules.
Why don't you point it out for us...Einstein.

 

[Sedition]

India on track for their lowest score all summer, and that's saying something with all the 150-180 scores. Just woeful, had practice matches, tests, T20's, and even SL comes in and smashes them.

 

[aussie1st]

So many golden arm bowlers in this team, Hilfy probably is one too.

 

[angryangy]

Looks like someone here was including while making those rules.
Why don't you point it out for us...Einstein.

Trolling staff, nice.

First up is the altered playing conditions that were getting mentioned by a few people, "looks like the new rules don't apply", etc.

For the avoidance of doubt, if an umpire feels that a batsman, in running between the wickets, has significantly changed his direction without probable cause and thereby obstructed a fielder?s attempt to effect a run out, the batsman should, on appeal, be given out, obstructing the field. It shall not be relevant whether a run out would have occurred or not.

This only seems relevant if you don't read it.

Law 37.1 paragraph 2

Furthermore, it shall be regarded as obstruction if while the ball is in play either batsman wilfully, and without the consent of a fielder, strikes the ball with his bat or person, other than a hand not holding the bat, after the ball has been touched by a fielder. This shall apply whether or not there is any disadvantage to the fielding side. See 4 below.

At first obstruction seems simple, but there are host of conditions that marginalise it. In bold is a very clear caveat. If you knock the ball with an empty hand it can not become obstructing the field. Finito. Whether your hand is on the bat is important in cricket; it is also not out if you glove a delivery to the keeper in this way.

What Hussey did is covered by handling the ball, where there is provision in the laws to allow batsmen to knock the ball away.

Law 33

1. Out Handled the ball

(a) Either batsman is out Handled the ball if he wilfully touches the ball while in play with a hand or hands not holding the bat unless he does so with the consent of a fielder.​

(b) Either batsman is out under this Law if, while the ball is in play, and without the consent of a fielder, he uses his hand or hands not holding the bat to return the ball to any fielder.
​

2. Not out Handled the ball
Notwithstanding 1(a) above, a batsman will not be out under this Law if he handles the ball to avoid injury.

This is why these sorts of dismissals are so rare. You don't have to get injured, you just have to avoid it; generally with cricket balls, it's safe to say any time one is hurled at unprotected flesh, it's gonna leave a mark. So to compare with the Inzamam case; hitting the ball with bat to avoid injury = out. Hitting the ball with glove to avoid injury = not out.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Well poor umpiring or not, this was a tweaking do and die match for India and they decide to give Zaheer a rest? Seriously? With Sehwag bowling we dont need that bastard Jadeja anywhere near the Indian side. Sehwag,Raina,Ashwin can handle the spin department well.

We are behaving like Pakistan cricket team right now, full of controversies and not playing upto the potential. I am happy that we are 99.9% out of the tournament now the 2 better team reaches the finals instead of India reaching the finals and not giving up a damn fight. Seriously after this tour many questions need to be answered. If there is a rift between Sehwag and Dhoni then please show the door of exit to Virender Sehwag who is good for nothing. Bloody **** just plays on flat track and cares a damn about team. Show some balls dude like Dhoni of showing a little bit of fight.

What a spell from Lee and Watson, the only reason India are losing this match

 

[aussie1st]

Jeez that was a shocking innings by Dhoni, that is what happens when you play cautious.

 

[Sedition]

Jeez Tubby make up your mind. Shouldn't have dived this time when the boundary is insigificant, but Dave should have last game with even less chance of catching it, when stopping the boundary was important.

 

[macintosh]

We can still win the game, Irfan and Ashwin can bat and I hope they stay there till the end, Praveen can also score some quick runs. At least we need to show some fight even if we don't end up victorious.

 

[Sedition]

Ashwin can bat as much as he likes now in the nets.

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and Lee picks up his first wicket in two games with a rank full toss

 

[midgetwars]

Fulltoss = India's Enemy

 

[aussie1st]

87 runs win, unlucky number now Watson lucky number
Bonus point win that is us booked for the finals.

 

[Sedition]

Too easy. As predicted, India once again fail to make 180 against us. 10 games this tour with Australia winning 8 and losing only a T20 with a second string side and an ODI, both off the last over. Can't ask for more than that

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Congrats Lanka and Aussie for reaching the finals. We are ???? these days and dont deserve to be in finals

 

[Jagar]

YYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

This is the Australian team of old!, Now if our top batsmen can just get off to a better start we can win this series. And Dussey's innings fortunately didn't come into play, so it was a fair win too.

 

[harishankar]

Dhoni cannot always work the magic. And in my opinion, he bats too low down the order to do any good when the required run rate is creeping up and he needs a lot of time to get settled - he cannot always play out 30 balls for no runs and then smash 50-60 runs in the next 30 balls.

Once again a familiar pattern for India: reasonable bowling but extremely bad batting on a decent pitch once again. This tour has been a sorry tale of rank bad batting by the top order, inconsistent bowling and occasional sparks of brilliance from one or two players that hasn't counted for much in the ultimate analysis.

Anyway, good to see that India won't make it to the finals. This shocker of a performance should see some heads rolling.

P.S. Another bright spot of a bad ODI tour: Nobody in India will be inclined to forget or forgive the 4-0 whitewash in the Test Series after this loss either. Indian cricket needs some serious reconstruction in Test arena and a good ODI performance might have swept all those issues under the carpet. Now with the entire tour being an unmitigated disaster, there is bound to be more pressure on the selectors to take harsh decisions.

And before anybody can take issue: I'd rather see India win a lot more Test series overseas than win the World Cup (obviously both are great achievements, but I rank Test series wins as a greater achivement).