Post by Acumen on Mar 13, 2021 18:47:37 GMT
Playing The Game quoted Australian Associated Press. Thursday, 11 March 2021.
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Sri Lanka’s opening batsman Danushka Gunathilaka was given out Obstructing the Field during his side’s first One Day International of the series
against the West Indies in Antigua on Wednesday. Gunathilaka becomes the 11th man to be dismissed in this manner in international cricket, following Jason Roy, Len Hutton, Xavier Marshall, Inzamam, Ramiz Raja, Ben Stokes, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohinder Amarnath, Hassan Rasheed and Anwar Ali.
Gunathilaka was judged to have obstructed the field *when he trod on the ball while bowler Kieron Pollard was attempting to affect a run out* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmSONHyzT4>. Pollard bowled a short ball which Gunathilaka fended away. Non-striker Pathum Nissanka set off for a single but Gunathilaka, after advancing down the pitch, sent him back and then backed back into his own crease whilst pointing his bat towards his team mate in a ’stop’ gesture. As he did so, he appeared to lose sight of the ball, stepped on it, and knocked it backwards.
Pollard immediately appealed and on-field umpire Joe Wilson requested a review, at the same time giving the soft signal of out. Television umpire Nigel Guguid ruled that Gunathilaka had deliberately attempted to foil the run out. In talking through his decision Duguid declared that Gunathilaka had “kicked the ball away, obstructing the field”, thus indicating he viewed the action to be deliberate.
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Sri Lanka’s opening batsman Danushka Gunathilaka was given out Obstructing the Field during his side’s first One Day International of the series
against the West Indies in Antigua on Wednesday. Gunathilaka becomes the 11th man to be dismissed in this manner in international cricket, following Jason Roy, Len Hutton, Xavier Marshall, Inzamam, Ramiz Raja, Ben Stokes, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohinder Amarnath, Hassan Rasheed and Anwar Ali.
Gunathilaka was judged to have obstructed the field *when he trod on the ball while bowler Kieron Pollard was attempting to affect a run out* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmSONHyzT4>. Pollard bowled a short ball which Gunathilaka fended away. Non-striker Pathum Nissanka set off for a single but Gunathilaka, after advancing down the pitch, sent him back and then backed back into his own crease whilst pointing his bat towards his team mate in a ’stop’ gesture. As he did so, he appeared to lose sight of the ball, stepped on it, and knocked it backwards.
Pollard immediately appealed and on-field umpire Joe Wilson requested a review, at the same time giving the soft signal of out. Television umpire Nigel Guguid ruled that Gunathilaka had deliberately attempted to foil the run out. In talking through his decision Duguid declared that Gunathilaka had “kicked the ball away, obstructing the field”, thus indicating he viewed the action to be deliberate.