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why is nobody talking about the biggest cricket controversy in years? it's like a semi-major international incident.

Posted by mafic Jul 5 '23, 19:34

Ashes is on (England-Australia), and Australia got an English batter out on mostly a dumb mistake by the English guy, but kind of a technicality.

overs (think innings in baseball) have a set number of bowls (pitches). over ends after the last bowl, when the umpire says "over". English batter let the last bowl go by, then started walking away before the umpire called "over". Australian wicket keeper (catcher) essentially tagged him out.

closest thing I can think of is maybe runner on base calls time, steps off the bag before the ump says anything, and is tagged out.

English side and media are all "technically yes he's out, but not within the spirit of the game! we would neverdo such a thing!" rest of the cricketing world's media has uncovered a dozen or so examples of players/coaches on the English team doing the same thing and being praised for "smart cricket," and the batsman who was out tried to do almost the exact same thing to an Australian a couple days before.

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this is like a 4-2 count and the hitter starts to walk to 1'st after the 7'th pitch, before the umpire calls it a ball. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 5, 19:59
Cricket is an elaborate joke Britons are playing on Americans. It is not real. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 19:53 2
- like birds! -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 19:54 1
  - Like cow tipping except, VERY elaborate. -- nm - loosilu Jul 5, 19:55
the reason is because I rely on you to update me on such things -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 19:45
"the saying is literally 'that's not cricket'" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 5, 19:40
To your subject: Because it's cricket and I'm not sure there are sports that Americans care about less than cricket. -- nm - TWuG Jul 5, 19:37 4
- because there are so many MSFT workers from India there is now a cricket league in King County -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 5, 20:24
- I've learned about it over the last few months and I'm quite interested in checking out the new league we're going to have. -- nm - Krusty Jul 5, 19:47 1
  - Go Orcas! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 5, 19:53
- sir, you have clearly never heard of kabaddi. -- nm - mafic Jul 5, 19:39

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