Melbourne Stars captain Adam Zampa believes fielders needs to be allowed to catch the ball with one hand in an effort to dismiss an opposing batsman who hits the Marvel Stadium roof.
Remarkably, within the Renegades’ Melbourne derby victory over the Stars on Saturday night time, Stars batsmen Joe Clarke and Beau Webster each hit the roof.
But slightly than being dominated lifeless balls by the umpire, underneath BBL guidelines each Clarke and Webster had been awarded sixes, regardless of each pictures going straight up into the air and nearly actually offering a catching probability for the Renegades had they been taking part in at an open-air stadium.
The controversial pictures prompted Zampa to name for a staple rule of yard cricket throughout the nation to be launched to the Big Bash League.
“Why not? It’s honestly a little bit bizarre that they call it six when the ball goes straight up into the air,” Zampa mentioned post-match.
“As a bowler you expect (when you) deceive a batsman to at least be a chance of getting a wicket.
“Maybe build the roof a bit higher,” he quipped.
“When it happens, you know how lucky you are, it’s nothing about getting on top of the bowler, or anything like that, it’s just pure luck.”
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Cricket nice Mark Waugh was in full settlement.
“It’s cost them 12 runs which is wrong,” Waugh informed Fox Cricket.
“It’s just not going for six. At the minimum it should be a dead ball.
“Twelve runs is a big difference in this game – let alone the fact they would have been out.
“Can’t do much about that but there’s no way it should be an automatic six.
“They’ve got to have a look at that rule. It’s not right the way that rule sits at the moment.”
Waugh mentioned he thought discretion needs to be within the umpires’ palms.
“If it looks like it’s not going anywhere near a six, it shouldn’t be a six,” Waugh mentioned.
“It should be a dead ball. I think it’s ridiculous. If you hit it straight up and it should have been out, then you get a six as a reward. I think it needs to change.”
Renegades stand-in captain Aaron Finch wasn’t too fussed by the controversial sixes, regardless of how shut they got here to depriving his crew their slim six-run win.
He wasn’t positive if the rule needs to be modified once more, both, after initially being deemed a lifeless ball, earlier than being tweaked to its present interpretation after Finch himself hit the Marvel Stadium roof throughout a recreation a decade in the past.
“The rule is what it is, it’s the same for both teams, so I don’t think you can complain,” he mentioned.
“But it would’ve been two dismissals … so that makes a big difference in a game.
“It’s hard to police isn’t it? Because you have these beams that hang over (the field of play), they’re already over the boundary so if it hits that, you should get a six, (but) if you hit it straight up you get a six, I don’t know.
“But I think the game is better with the roof closed at Marvel, because there’s so many buildings around (the Docklands precinct), there’s a lot of light that comes in and if you’re fielding it can be really difficult to see as the sun is setting off the seats.”
The Stars’ finals dream is all however over, and Zampa couldn’t cover his disappointment.
“It would’ve been nice going into the last three games with something to play for,” he mentioned.
“It was always going to be a tough season without the best player in the comp (Glenn Maxwell due to a broken leg), and obviously ‘Stoin’ (Marcus Stoinis) has been out quite a bit as well.
“When you miss two experienced guys like that, it’s a big loss, but I think we were good enough to make finals this year at least.”
Renegades batsman Sam Harper is in a wealthy vein of kind, having now hit three consecutive fifties, and Finch was stuffed with reward for the No.3.
“The way that he’s managing his innings at the moment is brilliant, he’s obviously got all the shots so the way that he’s constructing it has been outstanding,” Finch mentioned.
“Maybe be a kick in the backside (helped Harper) as well after missing a couple of games.”
One batsman who isn’t having fun with a superb run is star import Martin Guptill, who’s averaging simply 15.86 in his seven video games for the Renegades, however Finch was nonetheless “100 per cent” assured the New Zealander may flip issues round within the back-end of the season.
“He’s one of the best players in the world,” Finch mentioned.
Veteran Renegades spinner Fawad Ahmed appeared to harm his knee late within the recreation in opposition to the Stars, however Finch was hopeful he could be obtainable for his or her subsequent recreation in opposition to the Thunder in Sydney on Thursday.
