25 July 2011

All good things....

....must come to an end and the 2011 OMT Cricketer Cup run came to an end yesterday at Old Malvernians. More details in another post (or you can check the OMT Cricketer Cup blog), but interesting things I learnt from playing against a team with 7 ex-first class or minor county cricketers:

David Nash called "one" when it went to the boundary but he and his partner were pushing for two all along and got it easily (the "one" call being purely so that the fielder doesn't charge in as they assume that the batsmen don't want more than one).

Their wicket-keeper, who doesn't have representative honours, kept calling "no run" loudly whenever the batsman hit it for a potential single. It momentarily made me and others hesitate at the non-strikers end thinking it was the striking batsman who'd called no run, so you could call it cricket-smart or unsporting depending on your view point, but it worked.

Gutted to lose obviously, but the small upside personally was getting David Nash and Mark Hardinges out.

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1 comment:

Peter Lamb said...

I would be interested to hear GROV's views (and those of any other qualified umpire) on the shouting of "no run" by the wicket keeper after the batsman has played his shot and irrespective of whether or not a run was in prospect. This was in addition to, but louder than, normal sledging by the fielding team and clearly influenced the non-striker on a number of occasions. I certainly felt it was unsporting, but is it actually contrary to any of the Laws? If it isn't, I'm amazed that I've never heard (on stump-mike or elsewhere) of it being done in the professional game.