Aus vs NZ: Mark Waugh, Michael Vaughan argue furiously over banning 'leg byes' in cricket

Melbourne Stars triumphed over Sydney Thunder on Thursday when y took m on in ir Big Bash League 2019-20 match. On field, Nick Larkin's valiant 65 got Stars over line with two balls remaining. While on-field play went on, as usual, an interesting debate took place in commentary box.

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Mark Waugh calls for a radical change

match was being commentated upon by Australian legend Mark Waugh, former England captain Michael Vaughan and cricket commentator Mark Howard. debate began when Sydney Thunder were batting in first innings and batsman Alex Ross took two runs off a ball that clipped his pads. As a reaction to this incident, Waugh proposed idea that leg-byes should be scrapped from gentleman's game. Waugh insisted that although rule has been a part of game for a very long time, scrapping it makes complete sense. He even jokingly implied that a leg-bye is something that an "ordinary batsman" needed to score runs, back in 1900s.

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Vaughan, who was disagreeing with Waugh, finally struck back at Australian game with his typical dry sense of humour. Brit insisted that Waugh should be inducted into MCC ( Marleybone Cricket Club, cricket's former governing body) and convinced him about receiving benefits for being its member. Mark Howard interjected at that point and asked Waugh if he thought that byes should be scrapped as well.

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Waugh did t support idea of byes being scrapped because he felt that if a batsman evades a ball, n he is entitled to do what he wants. Vaughan insisted that rule is necessary to make most of bad balls that bowlers can bowl sometimes but Mark Waugh remained firm. " idea is to hit ball with bat. If you don't hit it, sorry, you don't get a run.", Waugh firmly stated.

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