Quote:If memory serves, it was the third and final Test of the 2014-15 English tour of the Caribbean. Jerome Taylor, armed with new ball was bowling the fifth over of England’s second innings to Jonathan Trott. The fifth ball of the over was full, swung into the batsman slightly and struck him on his pads. An almighty roar went up, as did Billy Bowden’s crooked index finger. The batsman trotted off after consulting with his captain and opening partner, Alastair Cook, who advised against requesting a review. He was plumb.
Replays clearly showed that the delivery swung in to the right-handed batsman. Bafflingly, however, the seam was pointed in the direction of slip, strongly hinting that the delivery ought to have veered away from the right-handed batsman. So why did it swerve in the opposite direction? Why did this attempted out-swinger defy instructions and swing in instead?
The television commentators didn’t seem to understand what happened either. In the end they appeared to put it down to just one of those things that happens sometimes. Something similar, perhaps, to one spinning delivery turning and another going straight on; just some kind of natural variation.
But there is no such thing, at least as far as physical motion is concerned. Everything is explainable. Everything must follow Newton’s laws, the first of which states that “every object continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by some external force.â€
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