varunvgiri
Club Cricketer
Sehwag has been fined 20% of his match fees for prematurely celebrating the wicket before the umpire has given his verdict. While Brian Lara left a meeting with the umpires and match referee feeling pleased.
Well..., considering that both his wickets in the second innings were obvious dismissals with bravo edging to the keeper and ramdin getting a huge edge to slip its hard to see how he could have been fined for both those dismissals. So are the bowlers required to continue appealing even when the dismissal is obvious? So they say that it is against the spirit of the game to pressurize the umpires by celebrating without appealing.
Well Brian Lara can go and ask the batsman to walk off accepting the word of an uncertain player (The umpires later said Ganga was uncertain when asked about the catch) and that is not a breach of code of conduct. And we havent mentioned the ball grabbing and finger pointing incidents. Also, Brian Lara as captain should be doubly responsible for upholding the spirit of the game.
Well Brian has taken the high line by saying that the sprit of the game suffers when batsmen don't trust fielders, but wasnt he threatening the same spirit by his behaviour...???
Well..., considering that both his wickets in the second innings were obvious dismissals with bravo edging to the keeper and ramdin getting a huge edge to slip its hard to see how he could have been fined for both those dismissals. So are the bowlers required to continue appealing even when the dismissal is obvious? So they say that it is against the spirit of the game to pressurize the umpires by celebrating without appealing.
Well Brian Lara can go and ask the batsman to walk off accepting the word of an uncertain player (The umpires later said Ganga was uncertain when asked about the catch) and that is not a breach of code of conduct. And we havent mentioned the ball grabbing and finger pointing incidents. Also, Brian Lara as captain should be doubly responsible for upholding the spirit of the game.
Well Brian has taken the high line by saying that the sprit of the game suffers when batsmen don't trust fielders, but wasnt he threatening the same spirit by his behaviour...???
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