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Former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard said the first Caribbean Premier League red card handed out to his Trinbago Knight Riders side was “absolutely ridiculous”.
Trinbago were forced to field with only 10 players, including just two outside the 30-yard circle, for the final over of their bowling innings against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots on Sunday due to a slow over-rate.

The CPL has brought in the red card rule as part of new initiatives to speed up slow over-rates.

The rules require teams to have completed the 17th over of the innings by 72 minutes and 15 seconds, the 18th by 76 minutes and 30 seconds and the 19th by 80 minutes and 45 seconds.


The rule is not limited to bowling sides, with batting sides to be given a five-run penalty for each instance of time-wasting after a first and final warning from umpires.

Pollard was first forced to have one extra fielder inside the ring for the 18th over, before another had to come up from the boundary in the penultimate over, leaving just three in the outfield.

His team were still behind the required rate heading into the final over and with umpire Zahid Bassarath showing him a red card, spinner Sunil Narine was forced to leave the field,

“To be honest, it will take away the hard work everyone has done,” Pollard said. “We are like the pawns and we are going to do what we are told.

“We are going to play as fast as we can. If you are penalised for 30-45 seconds in a tournament like this, it is absolutely ridiculous.”


Despite the final over of the Patriots’ innings costing Trinbago’s Dwayne Bravo 18 runs, it did not prove crucial.

Pollard, Nicholas Pooran and Andre Russell made short work of a 179-run target with 17 balls spare.

Billy Bowden shows Glenn McGrath a red card at Eden Park in 2005.

Billy Bowden shows Glenn McGrath a red card at Eden Park in 2005.
It comes amid a crackdown on over rates by the ICC in the international game, with both England and Australia docked significant amounts of World Test Championship points for their over rates during the recently concluded Ashes series.

Australian opener Usman Khawaja spoke out after the rain-affected fourth Test in Manchester.

“Don’t even get the chance to bowl in the second innings at Manchester due to 2 days of rain and (the) ICC still issue fines and take 10 WTC points off us for slow over rates!”, Khawaja tweeted earlier this year.

“That makes a lot of sense …”

While the red card solution may seem bizarre, it is not the first use of the football-inspired sanction on the cricket pitch.

The very first international T20 fixture between Australia and New Zealand, at Eden Park in 2005, was treated as effectively an exhibition game with players wearing fake moustaches and wigs.

Australia’s Glenn McGrath, with New Zealand needing an impossible 45 from the final ball of the game, went to imitate the infamous 1981 underarm ball, only to be stopped by umpire Billy Bowden and given a red card.

– with AFP
 

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Only memory is him having a go during a very average tri-series with WI and AUS. Sad hearing stories a week before his actual passing.

Had some very capable players back then with the Flower brothers.
 

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Now official. R.I.P.


Very sad was part of a great Zimbabwe team in the late 90s, very good fast bowler, good batsmen, that team almost made the semis in the 1999 World Cup.

I remember in 2003 how well they played in the World Cup but unfortunately key players left after. However he stuck around kept the team going when they came out here in 2003-04 against us and India.

RIP.
 

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Changes to stumping reviews​

In other changes to the playing conditions, balls hitting the roof at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne are no longer automatically six. The on-field umpires will now make a judgment call on whether the ball was travelling for six and if they decide it was not, it will be a dead ball. This follows several examples where top edges that went straight up into the roof were awarded six runs despite clear evidence that the ball would not have landed beyond the inner circle.


Umpires making a judgment call ? lol, umpires are almost redundant nowadays
 

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I didn't realise it's been 4 years since he was allegedly kidnapped. I thought it was more recent then that.

Anyway i cant wait for channel 9 to release the miniseries Magilla.

Would be as much drama as the garbage they dished out for warnie.
 

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Met and spoke to Stuart Macgill at a concert last year. Very friendly guy and was more than happy to chat.

Why on earth anyone would get involved with drugs with that sort of money is beyond me.
 

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I didn't realise it's been 4 years since he was allegedly kidnapped. I thought it was more recent then that.

Anyway i cant wait for channel 9 to release the miniseries Magilla.

Would be as much drama as the garbage they dished out for warnie.
100% innocent as you can't have that quantity of coke and get that fat
 
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