Padding up

[CHAPPERS]

Chanderpaul was doing my nut yesterday by constantly padding up to Giles outside off stump until finally being given out offering no shot.

I was thinking that the umpires should get a little stricter with their policy towards padding up. I rate Taufel as a quality umpire, probably the best in the wrold (and he loves giving Lara out) but I just wish he could have said something to Chanderpaul to stop him padding up to every ball. In the end it was okay because Giles finally caught him out with a good bit of bowling.

My question is should umpires be able to tell batsmen to stop padding up or should the rule be left alone to encourage better bowling??

 

[Reading Posh]

There's nowt wrong with the existing law - if a batsmen isn't playing a shot he should be given out, simple as. Putting a bat behind a pad is not playing a shot.

Agree on Taufel and Lara btw

 

[CHAPPERS]

There's nowt wrong with the existing law - if a batsmen isn't playing a shot he should be given out, simple as. Putting a bat behind a pad is not playing a shot.

Agree on Taufel and Lara btw

That was my conclusion. It's just annoying when someone kicks away a whole over.

 

[CHAPPERS]

On a side note, did anyone see Flintoff hit a 6 which his dad nearly caught on Friday, well funny. What was funnier was when Harmison came him and after smacking two fours in a row he hit the biggest 6 I ever saw at Edgbaston, beat Freddies best effort by a good few rows.