2024-02-17 07:56:00
Rajkot: England have been bowled out for 319 runs on the 3rd day of the Rajkot Test. Yesterday, England went into the first innings after India were bowled out for 445 runs in the first innings. But before batting, the scoreboard showed England’s score at 5 for no loss, and many may be confused as to why. There is a reason behind this.
If the umpire feels or sees a bowler or batsman running and causing damage in the area where the balls are pitched on the pitch, the umpires can award a penalty of 5 runs against the offending team after giving a warning or two. This practice is in the Laws of Cricket. Yesterday, when Ashwin was batting like that, the umpire awarded England 5 runs against India as he ran on the pitch despite the warnings. So before the start of the innings, i.e. before facing the first ball, England scored 5 runs.
It was a big problem in yesterday’s game. On the first day’s play Sarbaras Khan started to run away from the pitch with a bit of confidence after feeling that he had run on the pitch. Already during the first day’s play, Jadeja was cautioned by the umpire for running on the pitch. This is all just a game. This is a form of running and damaging the pitch that favors batting as the pitch is flat.
That means an imaginary rectangular area 5 feet or 1.52 m from the popping crease that the rule calls the protected area. These 5 penalty runs were awarded in the 102nd over when the Indian team batted. The reason was that Ashwin pushed a ball towards cover and ran into mid-air on the pitch. Ashwin, the veteran who has given a thousand reasons for mankading in T20 cricket, who was close to 500 wickets, doesn’t he know that it is wrong to run on the pitch like this?
But Ashwin later cited his ‘poor physical performance’ as the reason in an interview. And when he said, “The umpires were as warned. I know it’s wrong. If the English media thinks that I did it deliberately, I say it is not so. Be careful if you see it that way. I didn’t expect the pitch to break because I ran into it. “If I am so fast and able to run on a regular track, why am I coming to cricket? I would have gone to the Olympics,” he said sarcastically.
When Alistair Cook commented on this, “Yes! “Ashwin ran on purpose.”
But to say that he did not think that the pitch would be broken because of my running away from the pitch implies that he ran knowingly. The norm is not to take coffee in the exam. The question is whether we will accept it if a student says that I failed after drinking coffee and that I did not think that I would pass even if I drank coffee. So the question is whether the intention and action can be said to be good because the intention and the action are the problem and not the consequences.
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