WATCH: Neil Wagner given run-out despite having whole body behind the crease
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New Zealand pacer, Neil Wagner, faced an extremely funny dismissal in the second Test against Bangladesh in which Bangladesh's wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan disturbed his furniture with a backward throw. Although, at first sight, it seemed he was safe, but replays suggested that his feet were in the air.
The 22 yards turn into a battlefield as the batsmen try to outrun the fielder’s throw for one extra run, and the wicketkeepers try to outwit the batsmen with lightning moves. But then, there exist players on the other end of the spectrum who try to conserve their energy by avoiding singles and more than make-up for it by finding the ropes. While, there have been many funny run-out incidents on the cricket field, yesterday, New Zealand tail-ender Neil Wagner produced one more such moment.
Wagner clipped a Shakib Al Hasan delivery through square leg and asked his partner Trent Boult to come for a second run. But then a comedy of errors saw Wagner having to make his way back to the dressing room. Kamrul Islam Rabbi threw the ball from deep but it was slightly ahead of the wicketkeeper and Nurul Hasan threw the ball behind his back, hitting the stumps.
At first sight, it seemed that Wagner had reached his crease successfully, but the umpire decided to go upstairs to be sure. To everyone’s utter surprise, the replays suggested that Wagner hadn't grounded his bat for a foot within the crease, and according to the laws of cricket say he was run out.
Wagner would have been safe if his feet had touched the crease before the bails whipped off. But, he had not done that until then. His feet had made their final contact with the ground before reaching the crease.
According to Law 29 (batsman out of his ground) of MCC,
In October 2010, the MCC had changed the Law to rule that "if a running batsman, having grounded some part of his foot behind the popping crease, continues running further towards the wicket at that end and beyond, then any subsequent total loss of contact with the ground of both his person and his bat during his continuing forward momentum shall not be interpreted as being out of his ground."
Wagner didn't ground his foot when the bails came off, and so he was ruled run out in the game.
