Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Worcestershire v Somerset, 1979/archive1
Any thoughts or edits? (I'm posting this one early because I'll be tied up with another project for almost a month starting on the 13th. I don't know when this will be promoted at FAC.) - Dank (push to talk) 22:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
On 24 May 1979, in a game against Worcestershire, Somerset County Cricket Club captain Brian Rose chose to declare his team's innings closed after one over, throwing the game to manipulate a loophole in the rules. He was aiming to avoid elimination on a strike rate tie-breaker from the quarterfinals of the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, a one-day cricket competition for counties in England and Wales. After Somerset scored one run and declared, Worcestershire scored the two runs they needed to win. The match was completed in 18 minutes, with only 16 legal deliveries. Although Somerset's declaration was within the Laws of Cricket, Rose was condemned by the press and cricket officials. Just over a week after the match, the Test and County Cricket Board met for an emergency session and voted to eject Somerset from the competition by a vote of seventeen to one. Cricket's Laws were later changed to ban declarations in professional one-day cricket. (Full article...)
Harrias, and anyone else watching: the blurb I wrote had "England" in the first sentence, in line with occasional requests at WP:ERRORS, but after recent comments at WT:FAC, I'm not happy about that, and I've reworked the first two sentences. (The main problem was the length of the first sentence.) Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 14:19, 24 April 2019 (UTC)