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Good sportsmanship from the Yorkshire boys in tonight's match. Croft slips and cramps up. Easy run out but the Yorkshire lads decide not to run him out, but ask the umpire to call it a dead ball.

A split of opinions in the commentary box, one saying he should've been run out all day long. The other saying you can't do it when a player is sprawled out injured. An unwritten rule of sportsmanship, which the other commentator had never heard of.

For my opinion, top quality sportsmanship.

Funny thing is, I saw a similar thing in the Women's Big Bash a couple of years ago: batter went down injured running between the wickets, fielding team decided not to run her out on principle, but when she finally got to her feet and limped to the non-striker's end, the umpires counted it as a completed run and told the fielding team that it wasn't in their power to call a dead ball in that situation. Was at the back end of a really tight run-chase too.

Maybe the laws have been changed since, but it struck me at the time as a ludicrous reward for their wonderful sports(wo)manship.