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roggrain
24 Jul 25 20:32
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It seems to me that in the past it was allowed to have a 'runner' for an injured batsman. Is this not the case now?

ps I refuse to call them 'batters'!
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Report DixieDean60 July 24, 2025 10:02 PM BST
Rog, it always used to be that runners were allowed but the ICC abolished this rule in 2011, due i believe to  to some teams/players taking the pee. That is to say the batsman in question who requested a runner may not have been as indisposed as was made out. 

I have been at games where the batsman who sustained an injury was, shall we say, somewhat portly. The "substitute runner" was almost always the batting team's answer to Usain Bolt !

And i concur, it will always be batsman as far as i am concerned.
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