VVS Laxman uses placards to tell Eoin Morgan to respond to the English analyst.

Key points:

1.  Nathan Leamon uses placards as a way to give orders to captain Eoin Morgan.
2. Legendary Sunil Gavaskar is claiming that anything like this ‘shouldn’t happen in cricket’.
3. Former Australia batsman Matthew Hayden is another former cricketer who has raised questions about this.

As England’s analyst, Nathan Leamon uses placards as a way to give orders to captain Eoin Morgan, the third T20I among England versus South Africa garnered controversy.

Using a mixture of letters and numbers, Leamon held up a few placards to probably instruct Morgan regarding field placements as well as improvements in bowling.

The Former cricketers on this: 

This does not inspire a number of former cricketers, also with legendary Sunil Gavaskar claiming that anything like this ‘shouldn’t happen in cricket’. 

Gavaskar is joined by VVS Laxman, who suggests that if this activity is still part of the laws of cricket, it might not be in the best interests of the game.

Laxman on star sports show Cricket Connected:

“Laxman stated on the Cricket Connected Show on Star Sports, “Sometimes in T20 cricket, if the captain wants to make the decision, he addresses it with the coach or even the support staff or maybe a senior player, and after that discussion, a captain generally comes to a decision.

But if this thing (use of placard) is part of the rule, then I think it’s not the right thing because you want the leader to fulfil his role, else you don’t need a captain, as well as the team, can be run like football from outside where the team is run by the manager.”

Matthew Hayden also raised concern:

Former Australia batsman Matthew Hayden is another former cricketer who has raised questions about this. Hayden challenged the feasibility of the move, saying it is clear that there will be occasions when the codes given out will not be fully understood.

Hyden on Cricket Connected show: 

The question about all of this is, how successful is it? I mean, some of these codes were mixed up from what I understood, but during that possible era, there was a run-scoring streak as well as that’s the whole point of communication.

Hayden said that on the Cricket Connected Show on Star Sports, “You come together, you make sure that you understand the plan, and instead, you implement the plan, you can’t just leave it as you understand it.”