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July 31, 2011
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Ian Bell has just been run out in the dressing room...
Bell and Morgan thought the last delivery before tea had gone for four, so they stopped running in the middle of the wicket and turned to walk to the pavilion.
However, the ball had stopped just before the rope... the Inidian fielder threw it back, the bails were whipped off and Bell is "run out."
posted by Mr Bismarck at 10:49 AM on July 31, 2011
Wow. Interesting. India have every right to appeal and for Bell to be given out.
Expect tabloid fury, either aimed at Dhoni for being unsportsmanlike or Bell for being an idiot.
posted by owlhouse at 11:02 AM on July 31, 2011
It's cricket's version of "Merkle's Boner"!
posted by grum@work at 11:10 AM on July 31, 2011
1607 India must have changed their mind - Ian Bell is coming back out to bat. As the crowd realise what has happened the boos turn to shocked applause and then delighted cheers. Someone has had a word with someone, and thank goodness they did - we might just have been pulled back from the brink of something very, very nasty...
posted by Mr Bismarck at 11:14 AM on July 31, 2011
Classy by Dhoni.
/Also the list of previous incidents shows what a dickhead Tony Greig was (and is).
posted by owlhouse at 11:18 AM on July 31, 2011
Bell out twice in the same innings now (a record?), as he's caught by Laxman off the bowling of Yuvraj.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 11:53 AM on July 31, 2011
Grum - just had a quick look at your link, and it sounds like a similar incident, although the baseball one decided the game, and by the end of the season, the pennant. Cricket is such a game of "what ifs", that it's hard to work out what the impact would be - although as Mr B notes, Bell is now out (officially).
posted by owlhouse at 12:09 PM on July 31, 2011
If you've never understood the appeal of cricket, then The Guardian's Over by Over (OBO) coverage might give you an inkling of the kind of people drawn to the game.
Between lunch and tea, interspersed with the game itself, the topic of discussion is great books that you have started, but never finished. Gravity's Rainbow gets name checked, but I particularly liked the nomination of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Over 52.