Asian CricketICC's Yellow Card in the Ranchi Dust: The Inner Calculation of Powell and Rutherford's Sanction
ICC's Yellow Card in the Ranchi Dust: The Inner Calculation of Powell and Rutherford's Sanction
When the ball rolled past the boundary line off Mayank Yadav's delivery in th...
When the ball rolled past the boundary line off Mayank Yadav's delivery in the Ranchi outfield, Rovman Powell's bat was swinging in the air. I kept rewinding that footage—how a batter who had come to the crease just six overs earlier and thought himself 'set' flicked the ball away with his bat after being dismissed. Seven overs later, in the 13th over, Sherfane Rutherford was shouting at the umpire after a wide appeal was turned down. Two separate incidents, two separate articles, but one headline: 'West Indies duo penalised'. Reading this ICC Code of Conduct decision, it struck me that this is not really a match report—it is a governance document where the weight of the sanction and the weight of the headline do not match.
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