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rf_fozzy Feb 2024 8:59pm, 20 Feb 2024 21,661 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy If anyone ever says DRS hasn't improved the game. https://youtu.be/EglcKA8FJeE?si=WkwlugRIQljH-O2i
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 9:00pm, 20 Feb 2024 21,662 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy The first Alec Stewart decision is just plain scandalous.
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2024 7:41am, 21 Feb 2024 38,691 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Neutral Umpires were quite a handy development.
jda Feb 2024 7:53am, 21 Feb 2024 16,536 posts	Quote Pin jda I once came up against an umpire who didn't know the LBW rule but I was probably about 13 or so playing in a school game so it's a bit more forgivable perhaps. They had a bowler going right arm round the wicket (and quite wide in the crease too), I kicked away his leg side filth and was promptly given out!
Nicholls595 Feb 2024 8:25am, 21 Feb 2024 31,564 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 I once came up against an umpire who didn't know the LBW rule but I was probably about 13 or so playing in a school game so it's a bit more forgivable perhaps. They had a bowler going right arm round the wicket (and quite wide in the crease too), I kicked away his leg side filth and was promptly given out! I had exactly the same once in a Sunday friendly. As I trudged off I said something about not knowing the rules and the umpire replied I didn't play a shot. To make matters worse, the umpire was a female, so all my moaning was dismissed as sexism by the opposition.
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2024 9:48am, 21 Feb 2024 7,310 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch Yeah, I have been seen off by right arm round before now. Never impressed. Some of those up there are shockers though.
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 11:05am, 21 Feb 2024 21,663 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy I see that, in order to deflect from questions about stupid shots when trying to save/get back into a game, they are currently playing the: "will ben stokes bowl in the 4th test" card I put it to the England management that if he hadn't played in the World Cup and instead had his surgery as planned then, he could have been rehabbed in time for the India series and fit to bowl from the 1st test.....
rf_fozzy Feb 2024 11:05am, 21 Feb 2024 21,664 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy (which is the point I think I made at the time....)
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2024 9:34am, 22 Feb 2024 38,697 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Stokes has 'never seen' anything like Ranchi pitch - bbc.co.uk
GregP Feb 2024 10:11am, 22 Feb 2024 150,858 posts	Quote Pin GregP The oddest story about that is it seems to be syndicated. Think it was pretty much identical in The Times.