Ah Farce, we thought we'd lost you...
Aug. 25th, 2013 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceFour overs left. 21 runs to win, off 23 balls, a few wickets in hand, the crowd in uproar and both teams having a riot of fun - and the umpires take them off for bad light.
Yes, I know it's the regulation, and I know that regulations are supposed to be applied even-handedly and regardless of the state of the game - and even so. Do umpires have no blind eye any more? The proper response was "It's too dark to read the light-meter, so I've no idea what it says. Play on!"
This one will go down in the annals, as a match-destroying piece of ridiculousness. Hell, I can hear the booing from here, and I'm five thousand miles away.
Yes, I know it's the regulation, and I know that regulations are supposed to be applied even-handedly and regardless of the state of the game - and even so. Do umpires have no blind eye any more? The proper response was "It's too dark to read the light-meter, so I've no idea what it says. Play on!"
This one will go down in the annals, as a match-destroying piece of ridiculousness. Hell, I can hear the booing from here, and I'm five thousand miles away.