Nuwan Kulasekara's hyper appealing

[fineleg]

Run Forrest run It's a nice line for a movie. Not always in cricket. Virender Sehwag, who was in complete control in the middle and had started to indulge himself against the seamers, ran himself out. He whipped a short of a length delivery from well outside off through midwicket and ran two. Speed often kills, greed sometimes kills. He turned for the third run, perhaps thinking Muttiah Muralitharan wasn't going to get his throw quickly to the bowler. Muralitharan relayed the throw to Sanath Jayasuriya standing near the 30-yard circle. The ball reached the bowler Thilan Thushara who broke down the stumps, with Sehwag making a desperate dive at the crease. To run or not to run Mahendra Singh Dhoni pushed the ball towards long-on and set off for a run. Just a tiny snag in the operation, though. Yusuf Pathan was caught ball-watching and only responded after he realised there was no mid-on in place. Dhoni had a few words to say to Yusuf. Next over, Dhoni called Yusuf again for a quick single. This time, Yusuf responded immediately. He shouldn't have. There was no run in it and he was caught well short of the crease. As he walked off he spit the chewing gum in the air and flayed it with his bat. Wonder if it got stuck on his bat. (Nuwan Kulasekara) Shout loud and long to get the umpire's nod It's a nice philosophy that works many a time. Nuwan Kulasekara hit Sachin Tendulkar's pad with an in-cutter and turned around to screech out an appeal. The umpire Brian Jerling was impassive. Kulasekara persisted with the appeal. Tendulkar decided it was time to show his bat to Jerling, indicating an inside edge. Mistake. The umpire showed the fatal finger. The replays didn't reveal any edge but showed that the ball was missing leg stump. Ah well… Version two: Yuvraj Singh is caught in front by that man Kulasekara again. He knows his umpires well. Again, he let out a long cry from hell *!that moved Gamini Silva enough to lift his finger. Yuvraj was dead in front of the middle stump but Silva missed out a minor detail - a big inside edge. Shout loud and long but have a look at the batsman too Dhoni tried to glance a delivery down the leg side off Farveez Maharoof and the bowler went up in appeal for a catch. He pleaded. Jerling kept quiet. Maharoof was turning red when Jerling asked him to have a look at the batsman. A puzzled Maharoof turned to see that Dhoni had long vacated the scene. A sheepish grin spread across his face when Mahela Jayawardene enveloped him with a bear hug. Six thrills Adam Gilchrist once said that the greatest thrill about hitting a six is that the batsman knows that it's a six a fraction of a second before the rest of the stadium knows. Yuvraj would have really appreciated that feeling today. Hitting sixes is not uncommon for him but he swung his nemesis - Ajantha Mendis- over long-off today. He hit Mendis for a six in the previous tour but that was an act of desperation before Mendis swallowed him in the same over with a perfect carom ball. However, today, Yuvraj had pocketed the queen (red) and won that board game. Crowd trouble Ishant Sharma was hit by a nut/stone/unidentified flying object by some nutter in the crowd when he was standing at fine leg in the 24th over. But to blame the crowd for one person's moment of madness would be wrong. They have been a lovely crowd actually, swaying to the tunes belted out by the local band and enjoying the game under the lights. Play was held up for five minutes when Jayawardene went with the umpires to the offending area to pacify the crowd while the Indians got into a huddle near the pitch. Security thickened immediately around the boundary line. Balls balls balls Suresh Raina pulled off a fabulous diving save in the covers to deny Jayasuriya a certain four. The ball rolled away from his grasp as he was about to hit the earth and settled perfectly to smash the groin as Raina came down. At one point in time, there were three balls between Raina's legs. Raina yelped, twisted his body in pain and remained on the ground but the agony was still not over as Yuvraj jumped over him to hug him. The team is literally bonding these days. Some how, I can't visualise CK Nayudu pouncing on Lala Amarnath. Old trick fails some times Ishant speared one down the leg side, evading the attempted glance from Thillina Kandamby. Dhoni, perhaps egged on by the appeals when India batted, let out a shout. The thought had to be applauded: Belt out an appeal to escape from a wide. However, umpire Brian Jerling proved a killjoy and extended his arms. Hopefully, in gully cricket, it still works. Stumped The equation for Sri Lanka was 56 from 39 balls when Zaheer Khan yorked Maharoof. It was the perfect yorker that squeezed under the bat and hit leg stump. Well, almost perfect. The bail didn't fall. What's more, the ball proceeded to run away to the fine-leg boundary. A reporter wondered whether the stumps were sponsored by Fevicol. Alas, Maharoof didn't prove too adhesive, though. He fell in the next over, yorked by Ishant, who thanked him as he departed.

[fineleg]

Who are the other excessive appealers? (prolly some of the Aussies, ). ENG: Graeme Swann goes up like crazy Monty Panesar jumps up and appeals like crazy after ball pitches outside leg stump line! Who else?

[EnterTheVoid]

sreesanth, harby, ponting

[fineleg]

sreesanth' date=' harby, ponting[/quote'] there are lots of other things that harby does which is irksome, but I dont agree harby is an excessive appealer (compared to the other jokers in Intl cricket today).

[cochise]

I think Warney is the all time great of hyper-appealing...it was an art form with him.

[Guest Hiten.]

No one can match murali's aggressive walk towards the umpire while appealing.

[Guest whineleg]

What about finey and whiney's hyper whiningz folkzz?

[fineleg]

^ Consortium of users who share login id, has to enter this too :cantstop:

[Vignesh]

I guess Kulasekara's days are numbered. GOD is gonna kill him.

[DomainK]

I guess Kulasekara's days are numbered. GOD is gonna kill him.

Yes. Sachin is due for a big one. How lonfg will the umpires stop him?

[h4te]

How is Brett Lee not be mentioned yet?

[Mr. Wicket]

Because Lee doesn't really appeal all that often, half the time he just breaks into premature celebration while the rest go up in appeal.

[graphic23]

I actually thought that the Yuvraj Singh appeal was very long and it should've counted as over appealing.

[cowboysfan]

I actually thought that the Yuvraj Singh appeal was very long and it should've counted as over appealing.

is there a concept of over appealing?is it punishable by anything?

[Guest Hiten.]

is there a concept of over appealing?is it punishable by anything?

don't you remember Mr. Dennis charging 5-6 Indian players on the basis on over-appealing during the 2nd test in SA.

[cowboysfan]

don't you remember Mr. Dennis charging 5-6 Indian players on the basis on over-appealing during the 2nd test in SA.

nope.atleast the umpires have some power in stopping this.

[graphic23]

Yeah, that was the biggest thing ever. Sehwag was banned for a test for over appealing. Sachin was accused of ball tampering, etc.

[Willow_on_fire]

No one can match murali's aggressive walk towards the umpire while appealing.

is this a Demon?...oh.. I think it is the chucker....:cantstop:

[graphic23]

^ I think its high time we stop calling him a chucker. No one apart from the Australians and Bishan Bedi seems to have a problem with Murali's action. The man is a champion. To become the highest wicket taker in both the forms of the game (he'll achieve the ODI one soon) when the past 2 decades have predominantly suited batsman is an exceptional achievement and he deserves all the credit for that. To call him a chucker would imply that he got these 1000+ wickets in an unfair manner and that would be a grave injustice to a champion cricketer, not to mention an exceptionally philanthropic one.

[fineleg]

^ I think its high time we stop calling him a chucker. No one apart from the Australians and Bishan Bedi seems to have a problem with Murali's action. The man is a champion. To become the highest wicket taker in both the forms of the game (he'll achieve the ODI one soon) when the past 2 decades have predominantly suited batsman is an exceptional achievement and he deserves all the credit for that. To call him a chucker would imply that he got these 1000+ wickets in an unfair manner and that would be a grave injustice to a champion cricketer' date= not to mention an exceptionally philanthropic one.

ofcourse he chucks and that is unfair...now philanthropy is a separate matter not connected to cricket but his wickets, he did chuck. he did "get clearance", so politically correct thing is he does not chuck.