Mark Waugh, who is a former Australian batsman, believes that leg-byes should be eliminated from cricket. He believes that runs should not be given to the batting team if the ball hits the pad and both batsmen run between the wickets.
While Commentating for Fox Cricket during a BBL game between Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunders, Mark Waugh suggested this to the fellow commentator Michael Vaughan.
“You know what, I have got a rule change in all cricket: No leg-byes, especially in T20s. Why do you get runs? You missed the ball,” Waugh said.
But Vaughan defended the rule and said that the game was designed that way. “It’s just a part of the game,” he said.
Waugh Calls For A Rule Change In Cricket
But the younger Waugh brother stuck to his stance and said, “Why should you get a run? I know it is a part of the game. But for the good of the match can we change it? All cricket.”
The main motive to bat is to hit a ball. The person who prepared this rule may have been an ordinary batsman, Waugh added.
Vaughan then advised Waugh to be a part of MCC’s cricket committee as it is the key body that makes modifications to the rules of cricket.
“If you go across the last few years there’s been so many changes in the game: T20 arrived, 100 balls are going to start in the UK, talk of five day Tests going to four, but I think the most revealing is Mark Waugh’s,” he said.
“You should be on the MCC cricket committee. You have to be there. With that kind of thought process, he’s got to be on. You’ll get a couple of trips to London every year. You’ll sit in that nice room at the MCC at Lords.”
