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NORTH SOUND – They would not be West Indies if they did not give us all a few heart-stopping moments before they successfully completed their highest run chase in a One-day International against Sri Lanka. But they held nerve and built on a fourth ODI hundred from Evin Lewis and his second successive century opening stand with Shai Hope to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series against the …
By Rex Clementine
Cricket contests between Sri Lanka and West Indies generally have been good natured but on Wednesday the teams were involved in an ill-tempered game as opening batsman Danushka Gunathilaka was given out ‘Obstructing the Field’ during the opening ODI at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. He became the first Sri Lankan cricketer to be dismissed in that fashion.
Obstructing the Field is such a rare dismissal in cricket and only Len Hutton has been dismissed in that fashion in Test match cricket while there are less than handful of such incidents in all international cricket put together – Tests, ODIs and T-20s. It is one of the ten methods a batsman could be dismissed in cricket. Law 37 of Laws of Cricket says that any batsman to be dismissed in that fashion, there has to be ‘willful obstruction’.