I wouldn’t say it was gibberish, but your post allowed me to focus my mind better.
An interesting comment or two from Robert Craddock saying that Bowlers get scrutinised and hammered if they are 1 mm over the line when bowling, batsmen should pull their heads in and stay in the damn crease!
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...r/news-story/cc0fb5948c6b253f2d2a3a8722bf04f0
But cricket journalist Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock has
shed light on the opposing view — that bowlers are closely scrutinised at the crease while non-strikers get an unreasonable head start on a potential run without consequence.
It’s the very idea that the Mankad is against the spirit of the game that empowers non-strikers to take an otherwise heavy risk. But isn’t that in itself also against the spirit of the game?
“It’s a fascinating debate and I love the spirit of cricket but for some reason I’m having trouble sympathising with Buttler as the heartbreak kid,” Craddock said on The Backpage Live.
“He’s been warned for about seven or eight years, ‘Jos you drift out of your crease’ and he did it twice earlier in that over.
“A couple of years ago remember the forensically looked at the line for no-ball for bowlers. They get pinged all the time.”
And:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...n/news-story/baade3f17cf938ee415bd8c2f88b08cb
It was only in 2017 that the Marylebone Cricket Club, the spiritual holders of the laws of the game, put the onus firmly back on batters to follow the rules of any race – don’t start early.
The MCC made two important changes to Law 41.16. The first was changing its name from “bowler attempting to run out non-striker before delivery” to “non-striker leaving their ground early”. A simple gesture to stress where responsibility lay,
The second, and the one that Ashwin capitalised upon, was the extended time frame within which a bowler could run out a non-striker.
Before the rule change, bowlers were only able to run out non-strikers before they entered their delivery stride. Under the new law, the batter could be run-out up to “the instant when the bowler would normally have been expected to release the ball”.