alt Hacker NewsUnderarm bowling incident of 1981
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By contrast, underhand free throw shooting is legal in the NBA and it is very effective. But it is seen as unmasculine rather than cheating. Players would apparently rather lose than be seen doing it.
This ties in with something else on HN recently - the end of long wave radio in the UK.
Test Match Special was broadcast on the BBC's long wave frequency and for many people in Britain it was a quintessential summer listening experience: all day for up to 5 days per test match.
Such long time stretches of continuous broadcasting meant that the commentators were adept at talking, stories, banter and general chatter, occasional bollocks.
For me the Test Match Special broadcasts became like a pleasant ambient background noise to long summer days, with occasional excitement and humor - like the time Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew fell into uncontrollable laughter at a double entendre, a priceless piece of cricket history: https://youtu.be/KsVTpX7LdZQ
To someone who is coming in cold, this kinda feels like people saying it’s unsportsmanlike to kneel at the end of a gridiron game, or pass the ball around the backfield in stoppage time at a soccer game?
A more serious case of unsportsmanlike conduct that was (and still is) within the Laws of Cricket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline
As an aside, underarm bowling is the original style im cricket.
The overarm standard has (claimed) origins around 1800 in a lady cricketer raising her arm when bowling to avoid her skirt getting in the way.
Cricket will never make sense to me. That just seems like playing the game.
It’s an expectation as a New Zealander that you hold this against the aussies.
Honestly it should be on the citizenship test. If you answer favourably towards throwing underarm, your test is rescheduled the following week in Canberra.
I have no idea why this article is here on HN but this was so hugely controversial in cricket
(as an Aussie, sorry)
As an Australian, I feel like the Kiwis will always be able to hold this against us. A great shame
don't know anything about cricket, know only about the beginnings of the writings by learned scholar Douglas Adams
This was pretty bad. Will never be forgotten in NZ.
Has probably been forgotten by Australia and everywhere else though.
In baseball, intentionally walking a batter to avoid a hit is considered "fair".
This incident was an intentional pitch (bowl) to a avoid a "home run" and in cricket it is sacrilege.
The football (soccer) equivalent is someone kicking the ball out of play so that the game is stopped to allow medical attention to come on, and once the medical attention is over, the opposition taking the throw in doesn't throw the ball back to the other team. Occasionally teams have not done this, and scored a goal, shocked by this the goalkeeper will stand aside to allow the opposition to score an equaliser
Obligatory link to Bill Bryson describing cricket:
https://www.eetimes.com/bill-bryson-on-cricket/
The book goes on to spoof radio commentary on cricket, which is even more hilarious:
https://sidewaysstation.com/2017/07/10/stovepipe-with-a-quic...
To those not familiar with cricket and why this is so scandalous the English/Australian/New Zealand phrase “it’s not cricket” is used to describe an action or behaviour that is “unfair, dishonest, or goes against basic moral principles”
This article may as well be written in greek for how much of it I understand
The Aussies were simply adhering to the TLC-Sirlin credo.
I remember hearing this live while in a car on a hot summer’s days in the Adelaide hills.
Not a cricket fan now, but was subjected to it as a kid.
NZ are generationally enraged. Australians have wilfully forgotten.
> Bruce Edgar, who was on 102 not out, was stuck at the non-striker's end the entire over.
Now Americans can finally know how Europeans feel when watching baseball