Excerpt from SL vs Eng match in Champions Trophy :
| 39.6 | Onions to Mathews, 1 run, drama, plenty of drama! Too straight from Onions, Mathews gets up and works the ball into the gap at square leg, runs the first hard, turns back for the second and runs into Onions, then stumbles, and in the meantime Prior collects the ball and effects the run out ... Mathews stands mid-pitch and protests that Onions was blocking him but he is ruled out walks off, shaking his head ... England celebrate but then look on in frustration as Mathews is called back .... in fact it is Strauss who called Mathews back ... unlike Collingwood against New Zealand last summer when a similar incident happened at The Oval ...just an accident, or too generous a decision from Strauss? |
| Right, that was tense. It was not Onions fault as he was just going back to the stumps to see if he needed to collect the ball. Mathews turned and was ball watching and ran into Onions. To me it looked like Onions was not trying to obstruct Mathews. It should be the batsman's job to try and get out of the way. No malice there. Strauss did what he saw as best at the moment. This may turn into headlines later Today the same batsman collided to Gambhir and ran him out. No calling back or no drama. Gambhir was not happy but who cares. Not even the captain who had complained of umpiring mistakes or the team which got "spirits of cricket award". Double standards and hypocrisy. This is called cheating. The same batsman in England game throws tantrum and gets called back. Few deliveries later he is eventually dismissed. Asshole. | |
