moose wrote:firehazard wrote:England one-day captain Paul Collingwood has been banned for four matches because of repeated offending over the team's slow over rate.
This is a strange law, why does the Captain get banned? why dont the whole team suffer?
I think the idea is that they make the captain bear ultimate responsibility for making sure that the team keeps up with the over rate. In fact, in this case, the rest of the team are also being punished with a fine of a percentage of their match fee, though apparently Collingwood gets to keep all of his because he can't be punished twice for the same offence.
And apparently the umpires had been warning the team about it all through the latter part of the NZ innings. I'd agree with you that it would be better to have some sanction during the match (deduction of runs or something, if it could be worked out sensibly) than fining them after.
Have a great day at Lords. Glamorgan have had quite a slating in the Welsh press recently lets hope we can surprise a punch drunk Essex......he said hopefully. 
