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Leicestershire submit complaint over ‘ball not in hand' stumping.
EWCB Reporters’ Network.
Sunday, 11 April 2021.
PTG 3475-17215.
Hampshire’s follow-on outright win in their opening County Championship match against Leicestershire, was overshadowed by the fallout from a controversial stumping completed by their wicketkeeper Lewis McManus during the third day of play on Saturday. Leicestershire opener Hassan Azad was given out in his team's second innings after McManus knocked off the bails with his left hand while holding the ball in the air with his right hand appealing for a catch, which is contrary to Law 29 in that the ball must be in the hand that breaks the stumps.
The incident went unspotted at the time by match umpires Michael Gough and Billy Taylor - but match referee Stuart Cummings was made aware of it a few overs later by Leicestershire head coach Paul Nixon, the former England one-day international wicketkeeper. The game was streamed on line (PTG 3473-17208, 8 April 2021), therefore there is likely to be video footage of the incident.
Leicestershire released a statement on Sunday to express their "disappointment" over the incident, and said there were "fully aware that the England and Wales Cricket Board [EWCB] is taking this matter very seriously". An EWCB spokesman said the board would wait for match officials Taylor, Gough and Cummings, to conduct their investigation before making any further comment.
Hampshire captain, James Vince, said his players "weren't aware" of an issue at the time and that Azad would have been called back if it had been spotted. "Lewis is pretty down about how it looks but from his and our point of view we weren't aware there was an issue until a few overs later”, he said. "We're talking split seconds. Had we known instantly we would have called [Azad] back and knowing Lewis if he'd known exactly what he'd done he would have said something”.
Cummings spoke to both captains after the game and said a statement would be issued by the EWCB in due course. A spokesman for the club said Hampshire would be making no official comment at this stage.
Nixon said: "We were disappointed with what happened and we've spoken to the match referee, it's something we don't want to see in our game - I've never seen it before in all my years of cricket, and we'll wait to see how the ECB handle it”. Leicestershire chief executive Sean Jarvis said the club would be writing to the EWCB to "express their disappointment with the behaviour of the Hampshire wicketkeeper".
Hampshire’s follow-on outright win in their opening County Championship match against Leicestershire, was overshadowed by the fallout from a controversial stumping completed by their wicketkeeper Lewis McManus during the third day of play on Saturday. Leicestershire opener Hassan Azad was given out in his team's second innings after McManus knocked off the bails with his left hand while holding the ball in the air with his right hand appealing for a catch, which is contrary to Law 29 in that the ball must be in the hand that breaks the stumps.
The incident went unspotted at the time by match umpires Michael Gough and Billy Taylor - but match referee Stuart Cummings was made aware of it a few overs later by Leicestershire head coach Paul Nixon, the former England one-day international wicketkeeper. The game was streamed on line (PTG 3473-17208, 8 April 2021), therefore there is likely to be video footage of the incident.
Leicestershire released a statement on Sunday to express their "disappointment" over the incident, and said there were "fully aware that the England and Wales Cricket Board [EWCB] is taking this matter very seriously". An EWCB spokesman said the board would wait for match officials Taylor, Gough and Cummings, to conduct their investigation before making any further comment.
Hampshire captain, James Vince, said his players "weren't aware" of an issue at the time and that Azad would have been called back if it had been spotted. "Lewis is pretty down about how it looks but from his and our point of view we weren't aware there was an issue until a few overs later”, he said. "We're talking split seconds. Had we known instantly we would have called [Azad] back and knowing Lewis if he'd known exactly what he'd done he would have said something”.
Cummings spoke to both captains after the game and said a statement would be issued by the EWCB in due course. A spokesman for the club said Hampshire would be making no official comment at this stage.
Nixon said: "We were disappointed with what happened and we've spoken to the match referee, it's something we don't want to see in our game - I've never seen it before in all my years of cricket, and we'll wait to see how the ECB handle it”. Leicestershire chief executive Sean Jarvis said the club would be writing to the EWCB to "express their disappointment with the behaviour of the Hampshire wicketkeeper".
Wonder just how desperate their new CEO Sean Jarvis is for his club to turn into a white ball outfit only ?
ReplyDeleteCertain irony it happened to a club managed by 'Nico' ?
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