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From: sridhar@tekecs.UUCP (S. Sridhar)
Newsgroups: net.sport,net.nlang.india,net.followup
Subject: Re: MW Gatting
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 21:27:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 21:27:01 1986
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> In article <1140@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:
> 
> >This past week, in the West Indies, Mike Gatting of England
> >was nearly killed when hit in the head with a bouncer ....  
> >
> >.... Should it be a legal delivery?  (Current rules in the
> >Brittanic County Championship allow I believe one bouncer per
> >over.) .... 
> >
> 
>    Don't most batsmen wear protective headgear these days?  Apparently
			    ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>    Mike wasn't. (huh?)  Is there any legislation to make these mandatory?
>    If not, there probably will be now. 
> 
  I too would be amazed if Gatting wasn't wearing a helmet and that too
  against the vaunted West Indian battery. The times I've seen Gatting
  on TV few yrs ago, he was wearing a helmet. I'm really sorry this has
  happened. This is the third such incident in 25 years. The first was
  in 1962 (?) when Indian Captain Nari Contractor was felled by
 Charlie Griffith in the West Indies and the second was around 1975
in New Zealand when New Zealand
 paceman Ewan Chatfield was felled by England's Peter Lever (not to be confused
 with John "vaseline gauze" Lever also of England). Contractor's career was
 over but Chatfield survived miraculously to bounce (no pun!) back into
 the game a few months later. In fact Chatfield was supposed to have been 
 clinically dead for several minutes. Maybe this was the incident that caused the 
 institution of the "no bouncers to tailenders, only to established batsmen"
 law.
   Nearly ten years ago (April 1976), in the 4th test at Kingston, Jamaica
Clive Lloyd launched the "Kingston Bloodbath" or the "Afternoon of Terror"
against the visiting Indians. A continous barrage of bouncers incapacitated
almost half of the Indian team, so much so the Captain Bishen Bedi had
to declare the innings closed at 95 for 5 !!
At the time the only Indian bowler that could bowl a bouncer was
leg spinner B. S Chandrasekar !!!



--sridhar
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S. Sridhar sridhar%spy@tektronix.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa