Guys start going through the motions. |
Most people would have thought that, given the length of time that international players have been using the bat in Tests, the bat was legal. |
The MCC maintain that the epoxy that is used as adhesive to glue the covering to the wood of the blade, produces some molecular reaction, whereby the carbon graphite can be considered as part of the blade. The fact that 60 per cent of bats with manufactured coverings use such epoxy does not seem to have been a consideration. |
They have no clue. They don't realize that that 80,000 pound rig cannot stop in 20 to 25 feet. They don't realize it takes a few hundred feet to stop. |
We definitely still have confidence to play well. I think if we could pull out a win [against Rider], it would be pretty crucial to ... getting some momentum going into the games against Princeton. |