The CRICKETher Weekly – Episode 256: WPL Bails; ECB Ashes Review; Lottie for England?

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This week:

  • An explosive start to WPL, including LED bails controversy!
  • Who should sit on the ECB’s Ashes review panel?
  • Lottie throws her hat in the ring as the next England coach
  • Aimee Maguire’s bowling action: an explainer

2 thoughts on “The CRICKETher Weekly – Episode 256: WPL Bails; ECB Ashes Review; Lottie for England?”

  1. MI Indians were clearly robbed of a super over if not outright victory by those silly 3rd umpire decisions. At least 3 occasions when it should have been out and she gave not out!

    Imagine if we had to apply those rules of the bails having to be completely dislodged, to all previous women’s T20 games. We’d have lots of different names on trophies, I think. Unbelievable.

    Onto Jon Lewis now – another match for him, another loss. His side made a much below par 140-odd against what looked like a very weak GG attack, and didn’t really get that near to defending it either.

    UPW haven’t won anything and neither has Lewis recently. Could his little side-hustle go nearly as badly wrong as his England tenure?

    What a joke.

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    • So the WPL have now come out and said that the “mistake” made by the 3rd umpire was actually correct, and following the new rules they’ve implemented, requiring a bail to be visibly completely dislodged due to this year’s batch of zinger bails lighting up prematurely.

      Which is fair enough I suppose, as it’s limited in scope to this comp, but my complaint is that this was all done too late. The umpires were apparently not told till before the second match (in question, above); and the teams were not told under after the afore-mentioned match. Therefore the feeling of injustice for MI remains, and the whole solution feels like it has been retconned in, doubling down on a mistake they decided to carry on making rather than a pre-planned rule change. Not a good look, or feel.

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