Former Australian batsman Mark Waugh has called for the scrapping of leg byes from all forms of cricket, saying the batting side shouldn't be awarded runs for missing the ball.
"You know what, I've got a rule change in all cricket: No leg-byes, especially in T20s," Waugh said while commentating for Fox Cricket during a Big Bash League encounter between Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunder on Thursday.
"That should not be two runs. Why do you get runs? You missed the ball," Waugh added.
To which, fellow commentator and former England skipper Michael Vaughan responded, "It's just a part of the game."
The 54-year-old World Cup winner said the drafter of the rule "was a pretty ordinary batsman."
"If you go across the last few years there's been so many changes in the game: T20 arrived, 100 balls is going to start in the UK, talk of five day Tests going to four, but I think the most revealing is Mark Waugh's."
"You should be on the MCC cricket committee. You have to be on there. With that kind of thought process. He's got to be on. You'll get a couple of trips to London every year. You'll sit in that nice room at the MCC at Lords."
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