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Teaches people to value their wicket I guess. I gather they do something similar in Barbados (I knew about it in Australia but didn't know anybody did it like that anywhere else), apparently Saqib Mahmood asked about getting a run out with Jofra Archer's club team before the T20i's they're...

I think I've mentioned before, that I've seen people not walk when they're out bowled. :lolol: To be fair, we were playing without bails because it was windy, and the ball rebounded onto the stumps so slowly it was probably fair to question whether the bails would have been dislodged. Although...

I think that situation is specific to no-balls, if you read law 38.2.2: "38.2.2 The striker is not out Run out in any of the circumstances in 38.2.2.1 and 38.2.2.2.... 38.2.2.2 No ball has been called and he/she is out of his/her ground not attempting a run and the wicket is fairly broken by...

Were you actually trying to score runs?

I don't know, I've played in some teams where that would match the general vibe. I assume, from a very quick peruse of Hailsham's Wikipedia page, that it's a reference to ropemaking.

Christ, I wish I could have bowled on a few more pitches where it was possible to bounce a ball over head high. Over stump high would have been something. :lolol:

I completely accept it can happen, but generally I think batters (and I include myself in this) tend to misjudge how high a ball actually needs to be to be called. "Above waist high" is pretty vague but taken literally means level with your bottom rib, while I think a lot of the time people...

To be fair, unless he was facing some sort of Spedegue's Dropper style lob (or he's about 4'6", I can't remember how old you said he was), I struggle to imagine a ball that would be clearly high enough for most umpires to give a no ball if it actually hits the stumps. That said, I feel some...

Clearly the good Lord chose to punish them for their disregard of tradition/etiquette.

Some might say, hilarious. I remember following the score at work (it was into the evening, maybe about 6pm our time, so there weren't many people in the office) with a much more senior than me engineer/project manager from India. It's fair to say he went on something of an emotional...

Sounds even closer to this collapse by Bangladesh against India in a T20 World Cup game a few years ago. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/world-t20-2015-16-901359/india-vs-bangladesh-25th-match-super-10-group-2-951353/full-scorecard They managed to lose by one run, having been 145/6 needing...

Legitimately disappointed that Martin Gould didn't spend his youth smashing bowlers around Sussex before just deciding to become a snooker player on a whim.

Just a quick check, do you mean Michael Gould as in this guy (https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/michael-gould-297487), or does Ian have another son called Martin as you've written? I only ask as I've just spent longer than I can reasonably justify trying to work out if there's a family...

Sounds completely reasonable to me.

I thought I'd have a quick look on cricinfo to see if any possibilities jumped out. It probably won't surprise you that there's a fair few occasional New Zealand bowlers from the 70s with deeply underwhelming batting records...

I imagine everybody's played with or against somebody who's clearly playing several levels lower than they really should be. Probably not this many levels further down than they should be though. :lolol...

Well yes, I guess so, but we'll brush over that. I like the way that these qualifications get gradually more tenuous until they just give up and say "unless the ECB want to let them".

I didn't know Notts had any of their own young players.

I'd suggest that it seems more likely that they were headed to the pub, but from the look of it they may well already have been.

I know you generally want to get a decent game out of the day, but I suspect that in this case bowling first would only have prolonged their agony.