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[smokem]

All this mention of stealing a run- its not baseball, he's not stealing Second base! . Anyone know how far he was out? Can't imagine in a 4 day game he would have been charging down the pitch. Yes it is within the laws of the game but unless someone's actually taking the mick by charging down the Wicket then I don't think you should go through with the appeal. Warn them and that's it.

People also forget that by coming down the wicket more you open yourself up to bein run out when the balls hit back. Not much of an advantage really! By the sounds of it kartik was bein an (No Swearing Please) anyway and surrey were warned for chatting when he bowler was running in so that probably didn't help. Tres walked away twice on day one because the slips were talking! It's not club cricket

But isn't he gaining an advantage if he does end up running to the danger end? There is a law there (which was only just recently modified) and he did warn the same batsman earlier in the over. So if it's not within the spirit of the game, then surely there's a problem with the law?

I do agree that it sounds like there was a lot of niggle in the game and this incident brought the tension to a head.

I'm not here to argue with anyone but I really wanted some "local" perspective on the issue because I really couldn't understand what all the fuss was about, which is why I started this discussion. If there was no warning, then it's be a different story...

[charlie15]

The run out is quite casual as well, so really Barrow had plenty of time to make sure he was in  if he was looking at the bowler!

https://vimeo.com/48581629

[Nickauger]

if it had been any other player apart from karthik (Possibly de bruyn) there wouldn't be any fuss whatsoever!

its purely the fact it was a former player and at taunton!

De Bruyn was ex Somerset as well lol.

[petehosk]

Like a lot of others on here, if he was warned and ignored it, then he only has himself to blame!!!
Why should anyoe be allowed to continue to keep backing up too far all the time? The warning should have been observed by the batsman! In my view, the batsman is to blame for taking no notice of the warning!!!

[Red Ink Cricket]

Not easy to see the Crease but he can't be too far out when kartiks back foot lands.How does it work. Is the law still when the back foot lands you can leave ur crease? How would the umpires adjudicate? Surely they are looking for no balls first not where the bat is?

[Wolfie89]

From that video it doesn't even seem like the batsman was too far out of his crease. I probably wouldn't have even noticed if I was the bowler.

Slightly off topic, how white were Kartik's trousers!! And he walks like a duck