Question on obstruction

[debeau]

You are right Irishmafia .
As previously pointed out, in NZ this is how we administer obstruction .
We do not crystal gaze as to what might happen but we let the play devolop .
If there is blatant obst and in our judgement it was intentional 2 things would happen .
1- We need a sub because that player has been ejected
2-Yes we would award them the base in our judgement they would have reached had they not been obstructed .
In our opinion this promotes aggressive base running and is not against the ISF obst rule .
But we have had various discussions re this and we still and will be apart in our opinions .
It will be interesting when NZ womens team play in Canada in June and meet with other umps views .

Regards
Dave