The third Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) was once again marred by rain, which affected the game as several hours were lost to it. Former cricket greats are now questioning why the game has delayed for so long despite rain stopped a long time ago.
I said, Why dont they (the umpires) say we are starting at 1:20 or 1:30, not 1:40? He (Tom Parker) said, No, from the time you roll a wicket it has to be half an hour. So if you start a days play at 10:30am the wicket gets rolled at 10am. Thats still the same today. So if the game is going to start now, it had to be rolled half-an-hour ago, said commentator Ian Healy, reported news.com.au.
So I said to him, Can you start rewriting the groundsmen rule book and those sorts of conditions, please? Because we should be starting, we should be able to be on and playing now.
As per the rules of cricket, play cannot start until at least half-an-hour after the wicket first starts being rolled. The game at SCG too, was another victim of rain, much like its predecessor at MCG, with both Australian greats Ian Chappell and Shane Warne calling to use common sense and flexibility with the laws.
Common sense has to overrule the laws of the game at times. Put it this way, you have got to be a bit more mobile with the laws and the playing conditions and be able to fiddle around, Chappell said.
They have got to be more flexible. How many times do you see the hour-and-a-half you are off then play for half-an-hour then they go for lunch, Warne added. Lets get out and play.
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