India tour of Eng, June 20 - Aug 4

[Arthur Crabtree]

Got a chance making the following on target...

[Arthur Crabtree]

Still a crazy knock, whatever Gilbert did.

[andy]

Lunch 249-5 exceptional recovery by these two! Probably didn't want lunch to arrive the way they are batting!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Those two golden ducks are hurting England.

[andy]

250 up

[andy]

100 for harry brook!!! These two need to keep going

[andy]

Jamie smith in full flow is so good to watch so classy and dosent force it!

[andy]

Washington going at 6 an over.....that number 8 spot is a real issue for India ...thahkur and Washington chipping in with runs but the lack of wickets and control is hurting them now

[sussexpob]

Wiki says at the time a six had to be out of the ground rather than over the boundary, so he may have done it even quicker.

Sometime just before Bradman appeared, the rules of cricket became a lot more universal, but previous to around 1920 most umpires/players would have taken the rules from any number of commercially printed books that were sold as rulebooks, which contained contradictory provisions, along with umpires interpretating other rules differently.

The most fiercely debated rule was the boundary rule. I believe (I could be remembering this wrongly) in the original attempt to codify the laws in 1744 by the MCC, they used the verb "strike" in the rules that had a slightly different contemporary meaning. The rule, as was written, was to score a boundary four the ball had to "strike the boundary rope", and only then was it considered 4 and dead ball. Many umpires took this in a modern literal sense - if a ball went over the boundary but did not strike the boundary rope, it was considered live. Many umpires considered that impractical, and gave 4 runs.

You would have situations therefore in some matches where a batsman would smash one into the crowd, and they would continue running until the ball reappeared. The reason sixes were counted out the ground was a sporting way in these situations of only running 6 if the ball ended up 100ms outside the stadium in a pond. So while he might not of had any sixes, he might have hit one into the crowd and run 5 or 6.

After 1920, the MCC re-published its own lawbook which was seen as definitive.

[andy]

Reddy comes on first ball, smith snicks through to pant and it's dropped!!! Huge moment maybe still no siraj which is odd

[andy]

200 partnership comes up...gill sees sense and takes Washington out the attack they were just milking him

[andy]

Smith edges but dosent carry...these two need to be careful...playing recklessly now rate has slowed and something is gonna give soon look like they're gonna throw their wickets away, need to get their heads down and power through.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I call it the Boycott paradox. Claiming a batter was going along so well taking risks, that they didn't need to take risks and get out.

[sussexpob]

I call it the Boycott paradox. Claiming a batter was going along so well taking risks, that they didn't need to take risks and get out.

Its called the Vaughan paradox now.

[Arthur Crabtree]

After 1920, the MCC re-published its own lawbook which was seen as definitive.

Good info. Thanks.