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[gramw]

is he not talking about lbws? like a lot of people appeal for everything? prob wrong!

thinking about it obviously not, my bad

[art]

Lol Gm. I have seen the best of keepers appeal for catches that had obviously not hit the bat and appeal for LBW's where there has been an edge. At times except where edges are fairly easy to see and hear a keeper really is going only by instinct rather than reality. Oh and that goes for all grades, ages and levels of cricket.

[Chrissy]

Chrissy you are the ones i class as cheats, people who only walk if they know they will get given but if they think they can get away with it stand! Cheats!

Look right, what is your problem with me this is the 3rd or 4th time you have tried to start an arguement with me so what is your problem?!

[Coach]

Chrissy i dont have a problem with you! I have a problem with people of that mindset we just appear to dissagree on a few things

[Chrissy]

Ok no bother. But if thats the way i want to go about batting then thats the way i will!

[aaron]

dont walk if i did what would be the point in the ump standing there, although im a awful actor and when i hit it i stare at the ump waiting for the umpire to give me so i make it obvi

[mdl_1979]

I used to walk when I was younger, then didn't in a crucial club match, got away with it and made an unbeaten 50-odd to save the game.  Felt horrible afterwards, but reconciled myself with the fact that the umpire is there to make a decision - and there are many times when I'm given out off the arm, or to an lbw when I've nicked it into my pad.  These days I don't walk - I let the umpire make the decision - but I also don't moan when I get a rough one.  You can't have it both ways.

[Sambo]

I used to walk when I was younger, then didn't in a crucial club match, got away with it and made an unbeaten 50-odd to save the game.  Felt horrible afterwards, but reconciled myself with the fact that the umpire is there to make a decision - and there are many times when I'm given out off the arm, or to an lbw when I've nicked it into my pad.  These days I don't walk - I let the umpire make the decision - but I also don't moan when I get a rough one.  You can't have it both ways.

Ditto. Although i do get a bit cranky when it was blatantly obvious that it wasn't out.

[ianbuchanan]

i say in a game where there are league umpires present, leave the decision to them, however if you have a game where fellow teammates or members of your club are umpiring, i say walk, its unfair putting pressure on them when half the time they wanna be in the clubhouse with their feet up instead of standing in the middle....
however, if you admit to nicking a ball after you've been given not out to the umpire who made the decision, it can easily back fire in a later game. this happened to a mate of mine who said to the umpire after the game that he nicked one, the umpire then officiated at a later game and when the batsman had a huge inside edge onto his pad, and there was a half an appeal from mid-off, the umpire did not hesitate to raise the finger!

[art]

Hmmm. yesterday the game started late and the opening bowler broke down after three balls. At tea I heard the opening batsman say that he got his gloves on that ball and was given not out. Hmmm, I was at square leg and the ball cleared his gloves by at least 10 cm.

I quietly had a word to the fileding side that he was just winding them up and if he believed he gloved it he should not be playing. People play strange games on a cricket field and often the umpires carry the can for their stupidity.

[E-Unit]

Art how do you feel if a batsman walks when you have given him not out?

[art]

Hmmm, If a batsman walks I assume that he believes he is out. However there is a section in the Laws about 'misapprehension'.

This question gets to the heart of this matter which is the fact that batsman do not know what happens in all circumstances. And frankly I don't care at what level they are playing at, from time to time a batsman has no idea in the heat of the moment and a flurry of activity.

My process has always been if a batsman walks then let him. However given the misapprehension Law that does change things at times.

I have said on one or two occasions whan a batsman has walked "How do believe you were out?" I expect an answer because at times any umpire (check recent test footage) can make a mistake.

Therte is a recent much celebrated dismissal I was involved in when a player walked (he was out) and out of courtesy I didn't raise the finger. I turned to the bowler who then looked rather startled. On looking down the end of the wicket the batsman had returned and was taking guard.

"Excuse me Sir but you are out!"
"You didn't put the finger up!"
"No because as a gentleman you walked and as a gentleman I didn't rub salt into the wound. Oh and by the way the sheds are in that direction."
We all burst out laughing because this was one of the better try ons I have seen.

Almost as good as the recent tour match where the South African side batsmen tried to resume after drinks at the wrong end and the fielding side had 12 on the field.