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[mplagrow]

Have you see the do-good commercial where the player tells the coach in the huddle that the ref got it wrong, and he touched the ball before it went out of bounds? So he tells the coach he has to be honest and admit it...

So if you're the ref, and coming out of the time-out a player tells you he touched the ball and you got it wrong, what would you do? Overturn the call and give it to the other team? I guess it just seems like such an unreal situation, I don't know what I'd do if I encountered it.

[APG]

I'd do nothing...the only way I'd consider thinking about listening is if a player said it right way and never after a timeout like in the commercial.

[Mechanicsman]

Mabey he and the bookie exchanged signals...I would also do nothing.

[Adam]

No, I'm not changing anything.

[Altor]

He should just take a page out from a soccer playbook when the ball is kicked OOB for an injury. Take the throw-in and pass it directly to the opposition.

[BillyMac]

My daughter's fiancé is from Australia. He's been here in the United States for about a year, attending school to become an electrician while my daughter is attending medical school. Last weekend the three of us attended a cricket match, my first experience with cricket. As it turns out, news to me, Hartford, Connecticut, is a "hotbed" of cricket because of a large Western Caribbean population, whose parents, or grandparents, came here as immigrants to work the tobacco fields (shade tobacco used for cigar wrappers, best in the world, sans Cuba).

When a batsman hits the ball, on the ground, past the oval shaped perimeter boundary, marked on the field by a series of flags, it's a "four", and the batter's team is automatically awarded four runs, kind of like a ground rule double in baseball. Last weekend, the grass on the field was kind of high due to all the rain that we had. A batted ball barely reached the boundary area, stopping within inches of passing, or not passing, the flag. The fielder immediately signaled to the umpire that the ball actually had passed the boundary, thus awarding the batsman an automatic "four". I looked at my future son-in-law and he said, "Now that's cricket".