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Watt's the fuss: Mark Watt's 25-yard 'long ball' resurfaces against Australia

Inglis and Stoinis stepped away against the unusual deliveries and they were declared 'dead balls'

• Ipsum Porta 09-Sep-2024 • 4 hrs ago

Towards the end of the opening T20I between Australia and Scotland in Edinburgh, talk switched from Travis Head's pyrotechnics to the 'long ball' tactics of left-arm spinner Mark Watt and the grey areas of the Law that his innovation approach challenges.

The ball after having Mitchell Marsh taken on the rope, Watt delivered one of his 25-yard deliveries to Steve Smith who made the very late decision to step away with it taking the leg bail. The umpire called 'dead ball', although he did appear to speak to Inglis. It happened again a short while later when Marcus Stoinis stepped away having started to face up, although on this occasion the ball missed the stumps.

"It's just trying to rush [the batters]," Watt has previously explained. "By the time I've let it go, the batsman looks up and the ball's halfway down the wicket."

During the World Cup example, Tom Moody, who was commentating for the game, believed Kail was ready and ball shouldn't have been dead. "The batter's looking up. He's ready. To me, that is a legitimate ball," Moody had said. "The ball is live. As soon as the batter has placed his bat down and faces up, looks up to the bowler, he's ready to go."

Ishan Kishan has been ruled out of the first round of Duleep Trophy with a groin injury. Sanju Samson has been named as his replacement in the India D squad.

Kishan had sustained the injury during the Buchi Babu Tournament earlier this month in Tamil Nadu where he played two games for Jharkhand, his first set of multi-day games in over a year. India D will open their campaign against the Ruturaj Gaikwad-led India C, on September 5, in Anantapur.

Prior to that, the fast-bowling pair of Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik had been pulled out because of dengue fever, while Ravindra Jadeja was withdrawn from the India B squad. Navdeep Saini was named Siraj's replacement in India B, and Gourav Yadav, the Puducherry fast bowler, was called in to replace Umran for India C.

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