I am not sure what it actually means. You have always been able to deflect the ball onto the stumps, and also break the stumps with the glove (or a fielder’s hand ) provided the ball is in that hand. I guess it means that in the latter case the ball has to be in your control (as when you complete a catch) not just bouncing in and out again at the point the stumps are broken.
Not sure that is quite what it says, but that would make sense.
Bruce
I’ve just looked at the Laws and it’s I think it’s for the case where the batters have completed one or more runs and the ball then gets thrown at the stumps and goes for a 4. If this is classed as overthrows then the 4 is added to the runs completed, I can’t find the before and after Law to see what the clarification is.
Generally I like/am neutral to these. I approve of trying to cut down on time wasting, but think it makes the umpires vulnerable to challenge as it is a subjective call.
Thanks. I hadn’t thought of that.
Change 4 (Ball Finally Settled) is one which is sensible, albeit still reads as subjective(?). The ball only going ‘dead’ after reaching a bowler’s hands was always a bit strange to me, and was hardly an incentive to speed-up a slow game, and it kinda meant the batsmen couldn’t go ‘gardening’ in case they were run-out baseball style (if the ball hadn’t gone back via the 'keeper).
As a kid, we were told to keep a new ball away from the 'keeper’s gloves wherever possible, yet most pro-teams seem to delight in firing it back to the 'keeper early doors, including in white ball games. Strange to me.
In the thrash and bash of much modern cricket I think bowling sides now often try to make the ball to go soft as fast as possible. Pitches (and the white ball) etc rarely reward a well-managed hard shiny ball. I note Sri Lanka were warned in a recent ODI for repeatedly deliberately bouncing the ball in to the ‘keeper via very dry wicket ends.
I am not sure that ‘keepers gloves do a lot of harm to a nice new ball though.
Bruce
Perhaps ye olde 'keeping gloves we had at school and club level had surfaces like sandpaper, as per prior exchanges, I’m sure they were very different from the pro-level gloves seen today. And with the white ball, I would have thought sides would want to retain the shine as long as possible, as that’s the only positive feature of white balls IMV. Even a soft white ball gets clobbered to/over the boundary – as the recent India v WI ODI demonstrated. One side gets 405 and loses – although it looked like another small stadium for cricket.
Don’t mention sandpaper!
A very interesting podcast on BBC about the biggest cricket scandals. Worth a listen imho.
I recollect seeing a documentary about the slog which was the old County Championship and how Packer’s influence improved the lot of the journeyman players who, say, didn’t play in SA and/or Australia in the off-season.
One tale I always remember (I think from Mike Brearley’s book?) was when the late John Snow was bowling and England needed to slow the game down so (allegedly!), he filled his pockets with breadcrumbs and dropped these are he walked back to bowl. Cue a squadron of hungry pigeons, which delayed the game!