Looking back at it, I wrote a terrible example. Thanks for the corrections. I know I've been corrected on the 5->4 minutes thing only recently, yet I suppose my old (and as it was wrong) habit wants to die a hard and slow death.
>Slow over-rates are, I think, a phenomenon of the last fifty years. Indeed. But like you've told me before, I need to check-up and make sure with the number of balls per over. I didn't know till a few years ago for example that some Tests were played with 4 ball overs! But as far as slow over-rates go, I'm with Boycott on this one. Captains (and by extension, their teams) don't care about them much because the penalty is mild. I think teams should work harder at bowling 15 overs an hour, if not, they should be penalized heavily for not doing so. I accept excuses when captains want time to set fields, but there's gotta be a limit. If after I go through all those old scorecards and find decent evidence, I will make a post about it. (*scribbles mental note, one of gazillion other posts to make between now and death*)
>The exception to this in Test cricket Ah yes.
>not, as I read things, compulsory to take a new ball at the start of the second innings (you can keep using the one you used in the first innings) This is true. I can't remember an instance this was invoked but I remember hearing about it on the radio commentary. I believe another listener sent an email about it asking if it had ever happened. I'm not sure if Bearders found an answer for it.
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Date: 2007-08-09 11:38 pm (UTC)>Slow over-rates are, I think, a phenomenon of the last fifty years.
Indeed. But like you've told me before, I need to check-up and make sure with the number of balls per over. I didn't know till a few years ago for example that some Tests were played with 4 ball overs! But as far as slow over-rates go, I'm with Boycott on this one. Captains (and by extension, their teams) don't care about them much because the penalty is mild. I think teams should work harder at bowling 15 overs an hour, if not, they should be penalized heavily for not doing so. I accept excuses when captains want time to set fields, but there's gotta be a limit. If after I go through all those old scorecards and find decent evidence, I will make a post about it. (*scribbles mental note, one of gazillion other posts to make between now and death*)
>The exception to this in Test cricket
Ah yes.
>not, as I read things, compulsory to take a new ball at the start of the second innings (you can keep using the one you used in the first innings)
This is true. I can't remember an instance this was invoked but I remember hearing about it on the radio commentary. I believe another listener sent an email about it asking if it had ever happened. I'm not sure if Bearders found an answer for it.