To walk or not to walk?

Question

Does any 1 else agree that if batsmen started walking it would corz more problems then what it would solve

I think that is pretty clear. + i think its just not cricket any way.

ppl like gilchrist make other non beleivers look like lyers and cheats which r not. If Symonds last year was in India during that test he would have been crusified or burn on a steak

Answer 1

some times u r given out when u r not

so when it goes the other way, u should respect the decision .

Answer 2

personally, i never walk! and i dont think anyone should, you have umpires there to do a job and you let them do it, if he says your not out when you knwo you should be, then good you've got lucky, but if he gives you out when you shouldnt be, to bad! its his decision to make, not yours, you cant decide that your not out when he says your out and keep batting, so why go the other way around?

i dont have any problem with a player walking, i just dont do it myself and i think you always respect the umpires decision, good or bad, but there can be strange circumstances sometimes as well, it happened to me once last season, second ball of the 11th over i fended at a shorter one, got a faint nick, the keeper caught it, then tossed it to 1st slip, NO APPEAL!! well i assure you i wasnt going to walk for that! then later in the season i took a catch off our opening bowler, from an edge down the leg side, i celebrated (cos i knew he hit it), the umpire said not out, i stood there for about 3 seconds thinking "you gotta be kidding" then tossed to ball back and got on with the game, cos i figure theres no point arguing it and you take the good with the bad, the way the game has been for over 150 years!

Answer 3

There are two perspectives to this. One deals with the legality and the other with the spirit of the game. To not walk is legal and acceptable.

That said, To walk or not is the player's prerogative and to laud or criticize is the viewers'.

Answer 4

IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE OUT, YOU SHOULD WALK- AS SIMPLE AS, IF YOU ARE NOT SURE LET THE UMPIRE DECIDE.

Answer 5

oh yeah like right now he got away with not being given out again he gloved the ball from Taylor everyone appealed he was definitely out umpire didnt give him out again plus the liar that he is he told the west indian players he didnt touch it so dont say that the fate should be left in the umpires hands because they are getting more useless batsmen should walk because what would Symonds average be if opposition teams didnt have to get him out more than once

Answer 6

The umpires job is to judge whether the batsmen is out or not. If the umpire does not spot an edge or if he gets an LBW decision wrong, then the umpire has not done his job right. It is not the players fault if the umpire does not do his job correctly. If the umpire does not spot an edge etc, then it is not against the rules for the players to stay at the crease.

Symonds was not the only player to stay at the crease after he had nicked the ball, Sachin Tendulkar and Irfan Pathan both nicked the ball in the CB series and stayed at the crease after the umpire didnt spot the edge.

Anyway my point is that it is not the players responsibility to walk if they nick the ball, if the umpire does not spot the edge then it is the umpires fault. Thats why i cant believe why Symonds got so much abuse!! when Tendulkar and Pathan did the SAME thing.