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Yep, it's that time of year again. Considering the Aussies have been playing in India since I was in the States, you're all lucky I haven't been burbling about cricket before now. But I've been busy.
Today, however, I found the cricket spirit for this year, while looking up various cricketing terms for accuracy on wikipedia. From the entry on "run out":The most famous incident of this method of dismissal [run out while backing up] involved the Indian bowler Vinoo Mankad. It occurred during India's tour of Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Test match at Sydney. Mankad ran out Bill Brown when, in the act of delivering the ball, he held on to it and whipped the bails off with Brown well out of his crease. This was the second time Mankad had dismissed Brown in this fashion on this tour - he had done it in an earlier match against an Australian XI. On that occasion he had warned Brown once before running him out. The Australian press strongly accused Mankad of being unsportsmanlike, though some Australians, including Don Bradman, the Australian captain at the time, defended Mankad's actions. Instances of bowlers running batsmen out this way in first class cricket date back to the nineteenth century. But after this incident, if a batsman is given out this way, he is said to have been Mankaded.
I should explain, for jennyagain if no one else. *G* This is, effectively, very similar to a base-runner trying to steal a base, and the pitcher throwing to the base instead of pitching. When a batsman is "backing up", he's starting off towards the other end of the pitch before the bowler has bowled. Where it varies from baseball is that this hardly ever happens. Partly because there isn't enough of an advantage up for grabs (it's impossible to actually steal a run, though you can occasionally manage a cheeky single where one shouldn't be). Mostly it's because the cricket community got stuffy (and didn't want to see fifteen fucking minutes of the pitcher and base-runner teasing each other - guys, just fuck and then let's play some sports) and they changed the rules:Since then the Laws of cricket have changed, so that a bowler may no longer Mankad a batsman once he has entered into his delivery stride. However, under Law 42.15 of the Laws of Cricket it remains possible for a bowler to run out a non-striker who has strayed outside his crease after he has started his run up, but before he has entered his delivery stride. [Appendix D of the 2000 Code defines delivery stride as the stride during which the delivery swing is made; it starts when the bowler's back foot lands for that stride and ends when the front foot lands in the same stride.]
LAW 42.15, appendix D. I love my stuffy game. Not to mention out Mankaded. Our terminology kicks your terminology's arse. *beams*
Today, however, I found the cricket spirit for this year, while looking up various cricketing terms for accuracy on wikipedia. From the entry on "run out":The most famous incident of this method of dismissal [run out while backing up] involved the Indian bowler Vinoo Mankad. It occurred during India's tour of Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Test match at Sydney. Mankad ran out Bill Brown when, in the act of delivering the ball, he held on to it and whipped the bails off with Brown well out of his crease. This was the second time Mankad had dismissed Brown in this fashion on this tour - he had done it in an earlier match against an Australian XI. On that occasion he had warned Brown once before running him out. The Australian press strongly accused Mankad of being unsportsmanlike, though some Australians, including Don Bradman, the Australian captain at the time, defended Mankad's actions. Instances of bowlers running batsmen out this way in first class cricket date back to the nineteenth century. But after this incident, if a batsman is given out this way, he is said to have been Mankaded.
I should explain, for jennyagain if no one else. *G* This is, effectively, very similar to a base-runner trying to steal a base, and the pitcher throwing to the base instead of pitching. When a batsman is "backing up", he's starting off towards the other end of the pitch before the bowler has bowled. Where it varies from baseball is that this hardly ever happens. Partly because there isn't enough of an advantage up for grabs (it's impossible to actually steal a run, though you can occasionally manage a cheeky single where one shouldn't be). Mostly it's because the cricket community got stuffy (and didn't want to see fifteen fucking minutes of the pitcher and base-runner teasing each other - guys, just fuck and then let's play some sports) and they changed the rules:Since then the Laws of cricket have changed, so that a bowler may no longer Mankad a batsman once he has entered into his delivery stride. However, under Law 42.15 of the Laws of Cricket it remains possible for a bowler to run out a non-striker who has strayed outside his crease after he has started his run up, but before he has entered his delivery stride. [Appendix D of the 2000 Code defines delivery stride as the stride during which the delivery swing is made; it starts when the bowler's back foot lands for that stride and ends when the front foot lands in the same stride.]
LAW 42.15, appendix D. I love my stuffy game. Not to mention out Mankaded. Our terminology kicks your terminology's arse. *beams*