Don't know if cricket has any equipment laws like baseball, NFL, and hockey.
Will be interesting to see the outcome.
AND....
I'd like other people to try and bat with a squash ball in your glove...I bet it doesn't give anyone else an "unfair advantage"!!
AND...
Gilly is the fairest cricketer in the world...
AND....
They (SL) have had and an "unfair advantage" (read - chucker) for years.
Gilly clear in glove affair
By staff writers
May 09, 2007 CRICKET'S lawmakers overnight cleared Adam Gilchrist's use of a squash ball in his batting glove, which helped him score a record 149 in Australia's World Cup final win.
The Marylebone Cricket Club said Gilchrist had not acted against the laws or spirit of the game.
"Gilchrist's use of a squash ball was designed to alter his grip on the bat whilst at the crease, something which he was perfectly entitled to do," an MCC statement read.
Gilchrist was man of the match as Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 53 runs in a rain-affected and slightly farcical World Cup final on April 28 in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Kangadaran Mathivanan objected to Gilchrist's tactic, describing it as unethical and claiming it gave him an unfair advantage.
But the MCC said the relevant rule only stated what external protective equipment was allowed.
“ It's been suggested that if shoving a squash ball into your bottom glove makes you bat like Adam Gilchrist then perhaps the ICC should make it compulsory. †– Peter Young Cricket Australia spokesman For batsmen, helmets, pads, gloves and forearm guards are all listed as permitted.
"None has any definition or prescription," the MCC said.
"Since there is no restriction in law even on the external form of batting gloves, let alone the interior thereof, no law has been breached."
Cricket Australia officials yesterday rejected Sri Lanka's claims in full voice.
"It's a storm in a teacup, or a batting glove," CA spokesman Peter Young said.
"To the best of our knowledge it's no different to, say, putting two or three grips on the bat handle, or batting with two pairs of gloves or having inserts sewn into the palm of gloves.
"All these are things which now happen. This is in the same category."
Young said there was no question of Gilchrist seeking to take an unfair advantage.
"He is a highly principled person. You're going to have to go a long way before you find a cricketer who has higher moral standards than Adam Gilchrist."
Batting coach Bob Meuleman, who introduced Gilchrist to the technique some years ago, said he laughed out loud when he heard Sri Lanka had raised objections.
"Actually it's just a little bid sad that some people think there's something sinister in it," he said. "There's not."
Gilchrist's former Western Australia coach Wayne Clark said it was rubbish to think it gave Gilchrist an unfair advantage.
"They're grasping at straws," he said.
Senior Australian umpire Bob Parry, who stood in a limited-overs match in Perth last season in which Gilchrist had a squash ball in his glove while scoring a century against Queensland, said he had no problem with it.
"I don't see it being outside the spirit of the game. It's the same as wearing an extra inner inside a batting glove," he said.
Young concluded: "It's been suggested that if shoving a squash ball into your bottom glove makes you bat like Adam Gilchrist then perhaps the ICC should make it compulsory."
I like this quote:
"It's been suggested that if shoving a squash ball into your bottom glove makes you bat like Adam Gilchrist then perhaps the ICC should make it compulsory."
hahaha. Class.
Mark.
I like this quote:
"It's been suggested that if shoving a squash ball into your bottom glove makes you bat like Adam Gilchrist then perhaps the ICC should make it compulsory."
hahaha. Class.
Mark.
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