Former Australia player Mark Waugh thinks that leg-byes should be done away in the gentleman’s game as he feels that the batting team shouldn’t get extra runs for the ball hitting the pad. Commentating for Fox Cricket during a Big Bash League game between Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunders, Mark Waugh gave the suggestion to fellow commentator Michael Vaughan.

“You know what, I’ve got a rule change in all cricket: No leg-byes, especially in T20s. Why do you get runs? You missed the ball,” he said.

Former England captain Vaughan although defended it and said, “It’s just a part of the game.”

But Waugh stuck to his idea and said: “Why should you get a run? I know it’s a part of the game. But can we change it for the better? All cricket. “The idea of batting is to hit the ball. Whoever made this rule up was a pretty ordinary batsman I’d say back in the heyday, back in the early 1900s.”

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Vaughan then suggested that Mark Waugh should be a part of MCC’s cricket committee which can help in making changes to the rules of the game.

“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,” he said. “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.”