The (in)FAMOUS beamer

Deccan Chargers bowler Fidel Edwards was bowling against Somerset at Uppal, Hyderabad in the ongoing Champions league T20 match and suddenly taken off from the bowling. At that time Hyderabadi team had had every chance to defend their score of 153 but the atmosphere changed. Edwards bowled a beamer to Somerset batsman Hildreth. It was the second beamer in the innings for West Indian pacer and umpire Daryl Harper had no option but to remove him from the bowling as he had been warned after bowling beamer to Marcus Trescothick on the very first ball of Somerset innings. The first one from Edwards was full outside off and second (in the 17th over, to Hildreth) was down the leg side. With these beamers some similar incidence came to my mind. (We are talking about post bodyline era). During the India-Zimbabwe series of 2001-02 at Nagpur visitor bowler Travis Friend was at the receiving end. In the 41st over of the Indian innings ball slips out of Friend’s hand and went as a beamer. Indian opener SS Das ducked and the keeper Taibu too gave away four byes. Umpire Venkataragahavan and David Shepherd warned the bowler. Next day Travis Friend was at his best and hurled so many bouncers and generated some pace on a hot afternoon in Nagpur. During the 149th over of the innings he bowled a full beamer to Sachin Tendulkar He has been warned about this before and as per the rules (42.7 and 42.8) Umpire Venkat hand the young Travis Friend his glasses and hat and that was the end of Friend’s bowling for that innings. Exactly one year later, on 11 February, umpire David Shepherd was at the bowlers’ end and the bowler was Waqar Younis. It was Pakistan-Australia match of the World Cup 2002-03 and Australians was approaching 300 mark. Waqar was bowling 49th over of the innings but he was removed from the attacked by umpire Shepherd after 3 balls of his 9th over, after bowling two full pitched deliveries.