Surely the game can come up with something better now?
Ropes As Boundary Lines
- Thread starter Salvation
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Smaller grounds?
feck knows why they are using ropes in the West Indies, the grounds are as big as my backyard.
Perhaps to protect the players from crashing into the fence, but surely they could get some padded fencing in. It is 2007 after all.
Perhaps to protect the players from crashing into the fence, but surely they could get some padded fencing in. It is 2007 after all.
No, not on those lines
Ropes seem so obsolete, probably something that was used when cricket first started
I remember in the '60s watching Lancs in a 1 day game that was still going at about 9pm and near the end a lancs player hit the ball towards the boundary and it would have been cut off, but some young kids ran onto the pitch, grabbed the rope and pulled it in and we got a 4. Lancs went on to win one of the great 1 day games of all time. So I say leave ropes alone.
What's wrong with the ropes?
The problem with ropes, aside from being obsolete is when a fielder dives to save a boundary he invariably ends up increasing/decreasing the size of the ground which for another attempt might or might not have been a four
Unless those ball boys at the boundary lines to readjust the ropes which I actually have never seen happening
Unless those ball boys at the boundary lines to readjust the ropes which I actually have never seen happening
When the rope gets stretched at any point it gets pulled at some other. Probably gets canceled out over the length of the game. I really can't see rope shifting as affecting a game.
Also - why dots for the fielding restrictions? Why not just lines like any other sport?
Nah, I don't think they're that flexible
probably because they're not used that often. out and out lines might be a bit too much.
They should use electric fences
or anacondas.
It has been happening in this World Cup. I've seen it a couple of times.