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Recently, there was a bit of talk about commentators just being in a studio and not at the game. Here's a story (and accompanying podcast) about the original "synthetic" broadcasts in the 30's. I love the part when they got rumbled getting the wrong "Mc" dismissed.
www.abc.net.au

How commentators fabricated broadcasts during the synthetic cricket era of radio coverage

Experts explain how ABC broadcasters would fill in knowledge gaps during coverage of international cricket in the 1930s. Listen to the Everlasting Summer podcast here.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
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DuD_Delist said:
And if they're caught they should get the Bancroft treatment.
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Sadly those that have been cheating previously barely rated a stern finger waggling as punishment. By comparison the Aussies got the *smile* kicked out of them.
 
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TigerMasochist said:
Sadly those that have been cheating previously barely rated a stern finger waggling as punishment. By comparison the Aussies got the *smile* kicked out of them.
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This might not be a comprehensive list. But since 2000
- July 2000. Waqar Younis fined 50% of his match fee and banned for 1 game
- Same match, Azhar Mahmood, fined 30% of his match fee.
- November 2001 . Sachin Tendulkar & Virender Sehwag both suspended 1 match. The Indian cricket board threatened to call off the tour. Bans overturned
- November 2002 . Shoaib Akhtar found guilty. Given official warning
- May 2003. Shoaib Akhtar found guilty again. Banned for two ODIs, fined 75% of his match fee.
- January 2004. Rahul Dravid. Fined 50% of his match fee.
- January 2010. Shahid Afridi. Banned for 2 T20’s
-October 2013. Faf du Plessis. Fined 50% of his match fee
- July 2014. Vernon Philander. Fined 75% of his match fee
- November 2016. Faf du Plessis again. This time fined 100% of his match fee
- November 2017. Dusan Shanaka. Three demerit points, fined 75% of his match fee.
-March 2018. Cameron Bancroft fined 75% of his match fee by ICC, banned for 9 months by Cricket Australia; Steven Smith fined 100% of his match fee and suspended for one Test by ICC, banned for a year by Cricket Australia; David Warner banned for a year by Cricket Australia.
- June 2018. Dinesh Chandimal. Banned for 1 test.
 
Sandpapering a ball is clearly quite egregious but Faf got off exceptionally lightly the 2nd time and makes a nonsense of SA outrage over Warner, Bancroft and Smith, repeat offenders should have been dealt with far more strongly.
 
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Sandpapering a ball is clearly quite egregious but Faf got off exceptionally lightly the 2nd time and makes a nonsense of SA outrage over Warner, Bancroft and Smith, repeat offenders should have been dealt with far more strongly.
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A month after Faf's second offence for ball tampering, he was awarded the captaincy of the SAfr test team. Sums up Sth African cricket.
 
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Legends of 2017 said:
This might not be a comprehensive list. But since 2000
- July 2000. Waqar Younis fined 50% of his match fee and banned for 1 game
- Same match, Azhar Mahmood, fined 30% of his match fee.
- November 2001 . Sachin Tendulkar & Virender Sehwag both suspended 1 match. The Indian cricket board threatened to call off the tour. Bans overturned
- November 2002 . Shoaib Akhtar found guilty. Given official warning
- May 2003. Shoaib Akhtar found guilty again. Banned for two ODIs, fined 75% of his match fee.
- January 2004. Rahul Dravid. Fined 50% of his match fee.
- January 2010. Shahid Afridi. Banned for 2 T20’s
-October 2013. Faf du Plessis. Fined 50% of his match fee
- July 2014. Vernon Philander. Fined 75% of his match fee
- November 2016. Faf du Plessis again. This time fined 100% of his match fee
- November 2017. Dusan Shanaka. Three demerit points, fined 75% of his match fee.
-March 2018. Cameron Bancroft fined 75% of his match fee by ICC, banned for 9 months by Cricket Australia; Steven Smith fined 100% of his match fee and suspended for one Test by ICC, banned for a year by Cricket Australia; David Warner banned for a year by Cricket Australia.
- June 2018. Dinesh Chandimal. Banned for 1 test.
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Then there was the Atherton tampering a few years earlier. Prick got sprung with a pocket full of sand to rub the ball with n then he's got the nerve to get up on his *smile* high horse n bleat about us deliberately cheating.
Pocket full of sand n gravel or a bit of sand paper n there's somehow a difference.
Add to that their use of copius amounts of sticky mint slag on the ball a few years later that wasn't really cheating, but has since been banned.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
Great play but a ridiculous rule that should be changed after that. That should be 6.
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Yep rule seems silly but I love the player knows the rule and did it perfectly. Too often professional players don’t know rules and cost their teams.
 
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Brodders17 said:
Why? The hit didn't clear the fielder on the boundary. If he wanted a 6 he should have hit it further.
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I don't think you should be able to handle the ball a second time once it crosses the boundary rope especially if your feet are grounded on the boundary side of the fence. It sure wouldn't be possible with traditional fences & looks ridiculous.
 
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Tigers of Old said:
I don't think you should be able to handle the ball a second time once it crosses the boundary rope especially if your feet are grounded on the boundary side of the fence. It sure wouldn't be possible with traditional fences & looks ridiculous.
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I tend to agree, the look of it is ridiculous.

A few years ago, someone (I can't remember who) was given out runout when they were in their crease, but they were in a running stride and as the bails broke, both feet were off the ground and was therefore given out. The ICC changed that ruling that once your foot passes the crease line you are in. I think they should change this rule too, its confusing and just appears ridiculous.
 
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mrposhman said:
I tend to agree, the look of it is ridiculous.

A few years ago, someone (I can't remember who) was given out runout when they were in their crease, but they were in a running stride and as the bails broke, both feet were off the ground and was therefore given out. The ICC changed that ruling that once your foot passes the crease line you are in. I think they should change this rule too, its confusing and just appears ridiculous.
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I think the foot (or bat) has to have a least been grounded once after crossing the crease
 
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I think the foot (or bat) has to have a least been grounded once after crossing the crease
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It does now, but the rule previously had players run out, when they grounded the bat and then it bounced up off the ground (in a dive) and if the bails were taken off whilst the bat was back in the air (and the batter hadn't crossed the line) then he was out.

The rule change they made was sensible and so should this one.
 
I might be a bit old fashioned on this but I think that if the fielder has had to touch the boundary rope or the ground outside it at any stage during the act of fielding or catching the ball (not even just while touching the ball) then it's no catch and it should be four or six. This on the basis that if there was a fence there like there used to be (and should be) then he/she would not have been able to do it.
 
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