Australian players' low-key act..!? Negative line bowling..!?

Former Australian player Adam Gilchrist has criticized the Australian team for bowling illegally against the indian team and behaving lowly. Australian players engaging in cheating is not new. But the fact that a former Australian player has criticized it has caused a stir. On the third day of the first Test match against the indian team, the indian team was quickly scoring runs. After the indian team scored 150 runs in the first innings and Australia's 104 runs, the indian team scored a huge run in the second innings. Openers jaiswal scored 161 runs and KL rahul scored 77 runs. After that, virat kohli stood still. nitish kumar Reddy, who came in the eighth order, played an active game with him. Due to this the score of the indian team quickly increased beyond 400 runs. Due to this, the Australian players, who were irritated, tried to stop the indian team from scoring runs.
Moreover, they decided to annoy virat kohli by not letting him score a century when he was close to his century. For this, the Australian captain Pat Cummins invited part-time bowler Marnus Labuschagne to bowl. He deliberately bowled on the negative line. That is, he bowled wide to the leg-side stumps. The batsman's bat is always off-side. Therefore, it is within the rules for a batsman to bowl from the leg-side stumps to the off-side wide line. However, in Test matches, even if a bowler bowls on the leg side, it is not considered a wide. However, it is against the rules for a bowler to bowl the ball on the same line in a way that it goes completely to the leg side. If he bowls like this, the umpires will warn him.
If he continues to bowl like this, he will declare it as a wide. If he bowls the ball wide on the leg side like this, it will be difficult for the batsmen to hit it. Marnus Labuschagne did the same thing. Then the umpire warned him twice. When Marnus did the same thing again, the umpire declared it as a wide. virat kohli was on 96 runs at that time, and Marnus Labuschagne continued to bowl on the leg side line in this way. Adam Gilchrist has been harshly criticized for this. "Have Australian cricketers used such bad tactics? They have used these tactics against the rules on the negative line." He criticized. social media also condemned this action of the Australian players.
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Sowmiya Sriram

25/11/2024 11:42 AM