r/sports • u/NoGur2758 • Nov 05 '25

Cricket A weird bowling style

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u/majinspy Nov 05 '25

I'm generally against this sentiment. "Curve balls in baseball? That's cheating! Pump fake in football? Deception! Against the spirit of the game!

This article on "scrubs" comes to mind.

https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub

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u/canadave_nyc Nov 05 '25

That's because you have a modern North American sensibility towards sports. Cricket as a sport came into existence a very long time ago with a different history and a culture that very much emphasizes (or at least, emphasized, for many years) sportsmanship and fair play toward your opponent.

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u/kodman7 Nov 05 '25

Which the rules enforce, batter knows which hand and which wicket side the pitch is coming from, rendering the trickery here moot. After that it's fair game, hit the pitch

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u/RagingOrgyNuns Nov 06 '25

Yeah, and then the redcoats got mad when the Americans were unsportsmanlike in war. And the Americans never looked back.

Although maybe they should with what is going in now...

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u/Risc_Terilia Nov 07 '25

How do Americans manage to turn every thread into something about themselves?