VIDEO | Matt Renshaw's on-field joke costs Queensland five penalty runs

03/09/2018

It seems Queensland and new rules have become very closely related as after fake-fielding demonstration, they gifted away yet another five penalty runs. Today, Matt Renshaw decided to receive the ball with the keeper's vacant gloves which resulted in the umpire penalizing his side five extra runs.

Renshaw has been on a spectacular run of form and continued that dominance to yet another match of the Sheffield Shield in Brisbane on Friday. Well, rather than his batting, it was another funny incident that caught the eye.

In the match between Queensland and Western Australia, the latter's batsman guided a ball towards backward square-leg and watching that, wicket-keeper Jimmy Peirson threw one of his gloves and chased after the ball. Renshaw, who was fielding at the slip cordon, made his way upto the stumps to replace Peirson at the stumps. However, before doing that, as a joke, he picked the glove up off the ground and put it on. After he collected the ball with the gloves, Renshaw threw it at a fielder and returned the gloves to Pierson.

While he didn’t have any sort of bad intention involved, it was against the ICC law actually and umpires John Ward and Phillip Gillespie immediately noticed that. As per the rule No. 27.1 of the MCC Laws of Cricket, "a wicketkeeper is the only fielder permitted to wear gloves" and that’s why Western Australia were awarded five penalty runs.

This is not the first time that Queensland have conceded penalty runs out of the blue as earlier, in October, Marnus Labuschagne turned out to be the first player to be penalized under the 'fake fielding' law in a JLT One-Day Cup game. Labuschagne first dived to stop the ball, but he failed to do so and despite that he shaped to throw in an effort to threaten the batsmen for a run-out and the Bulls were hit with a five-run penalty.

VIDEO | Matt Renshaw's on-field joke costs Queensland five penalty runs

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