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[thedon]

Just thought of this scenario. Its a league match and the oppo are batting. Batsman strides to the crease, and you spot him using a laminate. Do you object or let ir         be? Im assuming lams are not permitted in league games, correct me if im wrong

[legger123]

Why object a Laminate? Is there something wrong with them or something?

[Manormanic]

laminated bats are not permitted in any form of the game - the bat has to be a single piece of wood.

and the answer is, invite him to remove it from the field of play forthwith, then report it to the League at the end of the game for their sanction. 

[legger123]

So laminates are multiple pieces of wood?

[Manormanic]

yep - usually a thin face of high grain grade A glued to a lightweight but ugly lump of wood.  There are numerous threads about them on here...

[Six Sixes Cricket]

Depends on whether we are likely to win or not

[Simmy]

this is funny cos this happened on SAT! ryan was going u cant use that lad lol told umpires

umpires just said get on with it.. so im gonna buy biggest dirtest lam i can find lol

[Manormanic]

I'd report that to the respective League - if nothing else, the umpires need to be up to speed with the laws of the game...

[Dan W]

I'd create a fuss, then every delivery whisper "cheat" during the bowlers run up, just to make sure.

[Manormanic]

Oooh, naughty.  Here's a bigger question - is it ever acceptable to use the word cheat on the field? 

[Number4]

Even bigger question.... Is it acceptable to cheat?

[Alvaro]

Oooh, naughty.  Here's a bigger question - is it ever acceptable to use the word cheat on the field? 

Depends if you have a good dentist or not...

[Alvaro]

Even bigger question.... Is it acceptable to cheat?

No, but have you ever turned a blind eye? It's hard to answer no.

[Number4]

It's not winning if you have to cheat to do it

[Manormanic]

In principle I agree, and when I used to play in Yorkshire I was a committed walker, to the extent where I once walked off when there was not even an appeal because, well, I knew I'd hit it and it would not have felt right to stay.

Since moving down South, I've gone the other way to the extent that I now have to be prised from the crease with the crane.  I don't want to play that way, but I've seen so many disgraceful displays of deliberate, knowing cheating that I came to the conclusion that I'd accept the umpires decisions but do nothing to help them out.  Whether its the side who are heard chatting in Urdu about how noone will know if they count the ones as twos and add a few wides to the score or the batsman last season who stretched to drive a wide out swinger only for the keeper to catch it diving way down the legside who swore blind that the ball must have hit a stone, you do sometimes wonder what the point is!