England cricket's Jonny Bairstow runout reaction

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Whither the laws?

Law 18 (Scoring runs)

 

 1. A run
The score shall be reckoned by runs. A run is scored
(a) so often as the batsmen, at any time while the ball is in play, have crossed and made good their ground from end to end.

(b) when a boundary is scored. See Law 19 (Boundaries).

(c) when penalty runs are awarded. See 6 below.

(d) when Lost ball is called. See Law 20 (Lost ball).

2. Runs disallowed
Notwithstanding 1 above, or any other provisions elsewhere in the Laws, the scoring of runs or awarding of penalties will be subject to any disallowance of runs provided for within the Laws that may be applicable.

Law 19 (Boundaries)

5. Runs scored
When a boundary is scored,
(a) the penalty for a No ball or a Wide, if applicable, shall stand, together with any penalties under either of Laws 18.5(b) (Deliberate short runs) or 42 (Fair and unfair play) that apply before the boundary is scored.

Law 21 (The result)

 

6. Winning hit or extras
(a) As soon as a result is reached, as defined in 1, 2, 3 or 4 above, the match is at an end. Nothing that happens thereafter, except as in Law 42.17(b) (Penalty runs), shall be regarded as part of it. Note also 9 below.

(b) The side batting last will have scored enough runs to win only if its total of runs is sufficient without including any runs completed before the dismissal of the striker by the completion of a catch or by the obstruction of a catch.

(c) If a boundary is scored before the batsmen have completed sufficient runs to win the match, then the whole of the boundary allowance shall be credited to the side's total and, in the case of a hit by the bat, to the striker's score.

Law 24 (No ball)

11. Ball not dead
The ball does not become dead on the call of No ball.

12. Penalty for a No ball
A penalty of one run shall be awarded instantly on the call of No ball. Unless the call is revoked, this penalty shall stand even if a batsman is dismissed. It shall be in addition to any other runs scored, any boundary allowance and any other penalties awarded.

13. Runs resulting from a No ball - how scored
The one run penalty for a No ball shall be scored as a No ball extra. If other penalty runs have been awarded to either side, these shall be scored as in Law 42.17 (Penalty runs). Any runs completed by the batsmen or a boundary allowance shall be credited to the striker if the ball has been struck by the bat; otherwise they also shall be scored as No ball extras.
Apart from any award of a 5 run penalty, all runs resulting from a No ball, whether as No ball extras or credited to the striker, shall be debited against the bowler.

Law 42 (Fair and unfair play)

17. Penalty runs
(a) When penalty runs are awarded to either side, when the ball is dead the umpire shall signal the penalty runs to the scorers as laid down in Law 3.14 (Signals).

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Law 21.6 (Winning hit or extras), penalty runs shall be awarded in each case where the Laws require the award. Note, however, that the restrictions on awarding penalty runs in Laws 26.3 (Leg byes not to be awarded), 34.4(d) (Runs permitted from ball struck lawfully more than once) and Law 41.4 (Penalty runs not to be awarded) will apply.

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34.4 Randiv to Sehwag, 1 no ball, match is over, but Sehwag has been denied the century. And this is a big no-ball, must I point out? His back foot was close to over-steeping, forget about the front foot. Anyway Sehwag smashed it for six over long-off, but they don't count because the game finishes at no-ball. He raises his arms, but then realises the century is not completed. Doesn't matter to him. He says: "It often happens. When a batsman is on 99 and the scores are level, bowlers try to bowl no-balls and wides. It happens in cricket. Fair enough." What a man 

So much for the rules, eh?

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Malgudi Cricket Club (MCC) from Swami and Friends

Just as I entered Tamil Nadu (by train) this morning, the images of R K Narayan's "Swami and Friends" came to my mind. I remember watching that TV series as a child and can't forget how Swami, Rajam and Mani, schoolboys from the imaginery town of Malgudi, decided to form their own cricket team called the "Malgudi Cricket Club" or the MCC on the lines of the Lord's based Marylebone Cricket Club.

Swami was definitely the fastest bowler in the team but I just can't remember the name given to him by Rajam for his fast bowling skills. Was it "Tate" after the famous English fast bowler of the time "Maurice Tate"? Any clue....

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FLASHBACK 1: This month, those days…

By Raja Baradwaj

Rewinding back to 1995, October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

The place was still Madras. A fantastic & historic ground, close to the Marina Beaches. 

M A Chidambaram stadium, that was were the pitch was laid out. The Lords of cricket in India were too ignorant of the seasons in India those days, not that they have improved any degree these days while scheduling. I S Bindra and his crack team decided to defy Varuna, the rain god who normally is a frequent flier along the Madras skies during that season.

Even before the cricketers could set foot on the MCC club grass, the MET office and Doordarshan, Madras had declared the match a draw, rather abandoned due to incessant rains. The lucky Md. Azharuddin was, he went out for the toss with the newest captain of New Zealand cricket Lee Germon. It was another fact that Mr Germon was new to test cricket itself.

The toss master he was, Azza won and the Indians were batting under overcast conditions. In charge of handing the man who was purportedly the reverse swing expert of NZ cricket, Danny Morrison and another second generation maverick Cairns, in Chris were Manoj Prabhakar and Ajay Jadeja for India.

Jadeja played 41 balls before he finally got out bowled to Dion Nash for 3. Prabhakar was then joined by Sidhu who by then was fondly called “Sixer” Sidhu by his fans in Madras, the place were his crickteting career blossomed to maturity. When rain gods intervened and had the players scurrying to the pavilion, Prabhakar was on 19 and Sidhu was on 18. The play could never resume before it was the fourth day of the match. Sidhu eventually went for 33 caught by Twose off the bowling of Cairns and India were 73 for 2.

By the time the match had reached its 72^nd over on the fourth day, Manoj Prabhakar the opener had briskly & very attackingly reached his 41^st of runs (in 220 balls), he had with him a certain young man who already had made his mark in the cricket annals as a budding superstar. Prabhakar must definitely have seen him as a very rash youngster that day, someone who didn’t take his test cricket seriously. The man was a one certain Sachin Tendulkar who was, at that time on 52 and this was just after the 88^th ball he had faced.

By which time it was rain again and it seemed Madras would never get to normalcy in the next 72 hours. It was a Poonai – Naai Maazhai (Tamil – English: pouring cats and dogs). So the match was called off and a presentation ceremony was called for, with that one old MCC member overlooking the Silver Duck sipping his RC Whisky reading The Hindu. Sachin Tendulkar was declared the man of the match for his 52 No.

And India were sitting pretty at, 1 – 0 in the 3 test series.

Another interesting fact in the series was that one Mr Roger Twose, who made his debut in the Madras Test built a reputation for himself. He went on to call Sanjay Manjrekar, one of the most dignified of cricketers, names. This happened in an ODI in the Vidharbha Cricket Grounds at Nagpur. This was post an athletic effort from Manjrekar to get Mr Twose runout for 9 runs, as NZ were setting a target up. NZ eventually went on to win the match by 99 runs, while India won the next match in Bombay to take the series 3 – 2.

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