30 Sep '09 17:07>1 edit
Originally posted by CrowleyYou're continually missing the points.
I want this 'courtesy' crap taken out and the umpires need to be basically taken out of the equation too. Hell, if we need impartial medical experts at the game, then so be it.
It needs to be a straight question of:
Is the player in pain and cannot properly continue without a runner?
Yes, means a runner. No, means not. I don't want a senile idiot lik e have a 'game doctor' at the ground in future, so we don't have a repeat of this farce.
i) Strauss was consulted, it was not his decision, nor should it have been.
ii) Cramp is a grey area since it is debatable whether or not it is even an injury, this means it is in the hands of the umpires.
iii) Plenty of other decisions are in the hands of the umpires; senile idiots like Buchnor decide whether a batsman is lbw, ct behind, one short etc. Would you remove the umpires from those decisions?
iv) In your world displays of good sportsmanship like that of Strauss or Vettori could not exist. That doesn't benefit cricket as a whole in any way.
v) 'Courtesy crap' is exactly the sort of thing that separates a decent game like cricket from the farce of football, we need more of it, not less.
Just get over it, it's not the first time a match affecting decision has been made which causes controversy and it won't be the last, that's part and parcel of cricket. You get some good decisions, some bad (lbw calls in particular) and it all evens out. Get over it, everyone agrees that guidelines need to be instated, there's nothing else to say.