The 1.15-metre rule fixed the old chaos of the "waist" call by giving us a fixed net-level point to measure from—no more arguing if a serve was above a moving, subjective waist. They call it progress, and for the kids today, it is. But I quit years before it came, yaar, because my best flick serve, the one that paid for my son's first badminton kit, kept getting called a fault by one umpire and praised as *jhakaas* by another. The rule didn't need changing; the egos did.
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