On 04/02/2024 14:48,
max.it wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 01:15:51 +1100, Mad Hamish
> <
newsunsp...@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 05:06:21 -0800 (PST), jack fredricks
>> <
jzfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 10:50:38?PM UTC+10, Mad Hamish wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 21:55:35 -0800 (PST), jack fredricks
>>>> <
jzfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As for this Law, I wonder if a "batsman may pick up a stationary ball, without permission" is all that's needed here to avoid dramas like this.
>>>> Cool, what if they're out of their crease?
>>>
>>> In that case Out. But if in, Not Out.
>>>
>>>> Ot their batting partner is out of their crease?
>>>
>>> Ditto.
>>>
>>>> Why do batsmen need to be able to pick up a ball?
>>>
>>> Why do they need to be Out (if both batters in crease, and ball stationary)?
>>> There's no inherent fairness/correctness either way.
>>> But one set of Laws results in a nicer game of cricket.
>>>
>>> The ball might seem dead at the stage, but unfortunately a fielder can say "I thought it wasn't dead" which means it isn't.
The fielder can say that, but the umpire is not obliged to take his word
for it.
> A silly bit about the Dead Ball laws.
>>>
>>
>> So we have 2 possible scenarios
>> 1) we allow the batsmen to safely pick up the ball wihtout permission
>>from the fielding team depending on multiple conditions
>> 2) we don't allow the batsman to pick up the ball without permission
>> As tjere are no possible reasons why a batsman needs to pick up the
>> ball it seems like 2) is pretty damned simple (and also prevents them
>> scruffing the shiny side)
>>
>>
> Plus two of the three peoples needed to determine if the ball is dead
> clearly don't agree with the batsman.
I don't think it's at all clear that the keeper hadn't ceased to regard
the ball as in play - until the batsman picked it up, when he clearly
decided to claim that he hadn't. Up to that point, he was ambling round
the wicket to pick it up himself with no urgency whatsoever.
OTOH, I wouldn't blame the umpire for not thinking that it was clear
that the keeper _had_ ceased to regard it as in play.
--
David North