Australian opener Matt Renshaw's blunder costs Queensland five penalty runs

After having struggled against India in the Test series, the Queenslander Matt Renshaw was dropped from the Test side against England for the Ashes as Australia went on with Cameron Bancroft and David Warner at the top of the batting order. Talks surrounded that it would be the end for the left-handed Renshaw, who’s run tally faded after the first few innings. However, of late the left-hander has been in some scintillating form with the bat for Queensland.

On Friday, however, it was not his batting that was the talk of the town. In the match against Western Australia, the left-hander was fielding in slips before he committed the blunder. The incident happened right after the striker knocked the ball to the leg-side which prompted the Queensland keeper Jimmy Peirson to chase the ball. Peirson threw one of his gloves before he chased the ball as it reached behind square.

What did Renshaw do?

Renshaw who was fielding in the slips made his way to the stumps wearing one of the gloves that Peirson had left before his chase and collected the ball with that. Following this incident, he threw the ball back to the bowler and handed Peirson his gloves back.

However, much to his dismay it was against the ICC law actually and umpires John Ward and Phillip Gillespie immediately noticed that. As per the rule No. 27.1 of the MCC Laws of Cricket, “a wicketkeeper is the only fielder permitted to wear gloves”, and hence Western Australia was awarded five penalty runs.

Not the first incident in Australia

This is not the first encounter where a Queensland fielder has committed such mistake. Earlier in October, Marnus Labuschagne turned out to be the first player to be penalized under the ‘fake fielding’ law in a JLT One-Day Cup game.

After failing to collect the ball cleanly, Labuschagne faked a throw in an attempt to disrupt the batsmen. What he did not know that the team would be charged five runs as a penalty for his incident.

Watch the incident here: