With so much talk going on about Cricket and teams refusing to play, teams unsportsmanlike conduct and low scores, www.islandstats.com has decided to draw your attention to scenario’s that have already happened and was addressed long before the recent incidents that most are acting as if this is the first time something like this has ever happen in the World.
Beforehand, let’s look at just today an eleven member team of Professional Cricketers representing a Country ranked 2nd in the Test Playing World was bowled out for 60. So all those talking about the low scores in County Cup and Cup Match – look it just does not happen in Bermuda – Surprise, Surprise!!!!
Now to offer a scenario on the conflict that both the Eastern and Western County are facing, because it has a bit of both controversies in them, but before you read this, take your personal feelings about a particular club, players, umpires or administrators out of your head and read part one and then see the answer.
What happens if the result of match was found wrong after the match day?
Consider a situation where Team A and Team B are playing a cricket match,
Team A scored some odd runs (let’s assume 250 runs).
Team B is chasing the score, while chasing they require 2 runs from a ball. Bowler bowls the ball Umpire somehow declare it as a NO ball and batsman is able to take only single run from that ball in this case the Team B wins the match because of that NO ball.
Now my question is after a day of the match Team A checks the replays and finds it was not a NO ball or it was not appropriate to say that ball was not legal to be bowled and if that is considered the result should have been tie instead of Team B winning the match.
Can the result be changed on the appeal from Team A?
WE WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER AND THE REASON WHY
No. The result stands. Law 21.10 (Result not to be changed) is very clear:
Once the umpires have agreed with the scorers the correctness of the scores at the conclusion of the match - see Laws 3.15 (Correctness of scores) and 4.2 (Correctness of scores) - the result cannot thereafter be changed.
In a controversial Test match at The Oval in 2006, the umpires held that Pakistan had forfeited the match due to refusing to take the field, and that England had therefore won. This result was then controversially overturned by the ICC, who declared that the result should be considered a draw. However, the ICC later changed the result back to the original decision, a forfeit, after the MCC - the custodians of the Laws - declared that this would set a "dangerous precedent," and that the ICC had no power to change the result. All this underlined the fact that the umpires' decision must stand.
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