A number of the world’s greatest cricketers have hit out on the most divisive catch of the summer time, with Josh Hazlewood calling for the foundations to be modified within the wake of Michael Neser’s controversial screamer to dismiss Jordan Silk within the BBL.
Neser made contact with the ball inside the sector of the play, then jumped over the rope, the place he batted the ball again together with his ft off the bottom, after which hopped again contained in the Gabba boundary to assert the catch.
It was a wonderfully authorized play in line with the foundations, however commentators, followers and gamers wish to see it modified after it successfully ended any hope of the Sixers reeling in Brisbane’s whole on Sunday night time.
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“I didn’t prefer it all,” Hazlewood stated.
“I believe it needs to be again to the outdated rule the place you need to be within the subject of play and that’s your final step earlier than you throw it again in. It was one thing totally different and ‘Ness’ is fairly cluey with the foundations. It labored for them final night time.
“Gamers are positively conscious of the rule. I’m unsure when [the rule] modified, however it was just a few years again.”
New Zealand veteran Trent Boult is gearing up for the Melbourne derby on Tuesday night time, and whereas he doesn’t assume the boundary rope needs to be pushed additional again, he concedes the rule must be tweaked given the general public backlash.
“I didn’t realise that was the rule,” stated Boult.
“I believe it’d want addressing; I’ve seen a few feedback saying ‘what’s the level of a boundary rope?’ and ‘can you retain hopping across the subject of play?’
“I’ve bought to watch out as a result of I’ll have taken one like that at one level …
“I believe it’s a tricky one, however to make it clear, I believe it’s best to have to the touch the sector of play once more when you come again over the rope.”
