Aussie wicket keeper Peter Nevill justifies Karunaratne stumping

Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Peter Nevill has been in the news of late following his cheeky yet controversial stumping of Sri Lankan opening batsman Dimuth Karunaratne. Further analysis and video replays went on to suggest that Nevill waited for Karunaratne to take his foot off the crease momentarily before whipping the bails off. Although it seemed to be a bit of a long shot at the time, Karunaratne was adjudged out and made his way back.

Speaking about the ‘spirit of cricket’, Nevill said that it all came down to the timing. “You might’ve seen on the footage, I had my hand right by the stumps waiting for that to happen, and it did happen and just worked out well that the timing was just right that it was out.

Speaking about the dismissal, Peter Nevill said that the dismissal was rather contrary to the ‘Spirit of Cricket’ discussion some had been speaking about the entire incident. He would also go on to add the importance of Brad Haddin in his career.

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“Well there’s always people who are going to say something like that [it went against the spirit of the game] but I don’t think it’s contrary to the spirit of cricket. If you don’t want to get stumped stay in your crease. You can sort of see, a shifting of weight and you’re expecting the back foot to come up. That’s the hunch I had and that’s what happened. Just managed to get the bails off in time.”

“It’s happened a few times, in a second XI game in Australia there was one where the guy jumped after he played his shot,” he said. “I know Hadds [Brad Haddin] has tried to do it a million times as well, so I think that’s rubbed off on me.”

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