spintwin wrote:After the late start we calculated time remaining and that was 53 overs. We played to 515 beacaus ethey had bowled 53 overs already.i think they ended up bowling 58 iIthink. Ecky has already said it was played to the rules. There is no grey area in this rule. It is in Black and White. As far as i can see there is only one person that has a problem with it.
mate, have a look at my previous posts. if you faced the minimum number of overs, excellent. u must then finish at 515...fine.
the issues here are several fold...call them grey areas ok??....
first, there was no re-calculation of target score. There are no provisions for this in the rules. Fair?? fair enough at this point....rules are rules.
second....the Rules (notice rule with a capital "r"), say a match is drawn when it is either cancelled or abandoned. this is black and white....not grey. yet 7.1 (a) is a direct contradicition...definate grey.
thirdly, if i wanted to, as a bowling team, i could rock up on the second day with 6 people....and have the rest of my crew rock up 29 minutes after 1pm. we then recalculate the number of overs lost due the "delay", and effectively the chasing team has 6 or 7 overs LESS to chase down the total IF they want to win....otherwise a draw hey?
this is not my team involved, but there are obvious discrepancies....surely.
surely if u dont reach a target total in the given number of overs, regardless of whether the team has been dismissed, it shoudnt be a draw in a two-day format. my opinion.
unless you want to play for a draw of course........