Time for POC to INVADE and CIVILIZE "Superstitious" England and
Australian players.

The flipping of the bails is a quirk familiar among club cricketers up
and down the UK.

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https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-2023-stuart-broad-old-magic-england-contention-1389932

Then, as Ben Stokes contemplated a tweak in the field, Mark Wood
returned to the top of his mark for the final delivery and Labuschagne
stepped away to contemplate closing out the 43rd over, Stuart Broad
walked up to the batter's stumps and switched the bails around.

"I've heard - and I might have made this up - that it's like an Aussie
change of luck thing," Broad said later, feigning a bit of naivety. "I
feel like I've seen Nathan Lyon do it." Again, he knows he has. Lyon did similar to Joe Root during the 2019 series, only for the then-England
captain to switch them back. Labuschagne did not.

It's not just an Australian thing, of course. The flipping of the bails
is a quirk familiar among club cricketers up and down the UK. An
indulgence of an idle thought as you walk by the stumps of a batter who
is having it his own way, concluding the problem with your approach to
taking a wicket is not your approach at all, but because the bails are
the wrong way around.


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