There are many charming rituals in gridiron. One is the concept of unnecessary roughness - which seems to mean severe physical assault almost and possibly causing death to an opponent. The fact that the rules identify unnecessary roughness means, of course, that there is necessary roughness, although how this is possible to discern in the mayhem of the game is beyond FB.
Gatting and unnecessary spinniness |
But FB thinks there must be something that cricket can learn from this. He has therefore written to the MCC in their capacity as guardians of the laws of the game to propose that the concept of unnecessary spinniness be introduced. His legal advisers have suggested the following wording:
Any ball bowled, particularly at FB himself, which deviates from the playing surface on bouncing by more than 3cm shall be deemed by the umpire as demonstrating unnecessary spinniness and so be called a no-ball. In the case of leg spinners, unnecessary spinniness will be defined as a deviation of 1 cm. In any case of doubt the batsman's view will be final.
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