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This edition of Umpires Corner in association with the International Institute of Cricket Umpiring and Scoring covers some more tricky questions of the Laws.
Many times on the pitch (and after the game) we have come to discuss whether a controversial situation should be allowed or not. There are precious few players with a deep enough understanding of the laws for our arguments to be resolved, but many times it's the players who also act as umpires. Now we can consult a team of expert experienced umpires for the answers to those tricky questions.
You can submit your own questions to the umpires here.
"We were all very late arriving at the ground for the game. The only club member who had arrived more than fifteen minutes before the start of play was our Club Secretary, who is also our scorer. When we arrived we discovered that he had given in the team list and tossed up. Is he allowed to do this?"”
Unless League or competition rules say otherwise, the Laws state that, at the latest, the toss must take place fifteen minutes before the scheduled start of play, and after the nominated team list has been given to the umpires. Anyone can do this.
But after the toss, any further decisions can only be made by a member of the nominated team, so I hope your Hon. Sec. didn’t try to decide whether your side should bat or bowl!
Law 1.3 The Toss (Open Learning Manual Page 4)
"Like a lot of players, I often umpire for a short spell while our side is batting. Recently I got very confused with overthrows. The batsman hit the ball and ran. He completed the first run, and had crossed with his partner on the second, when the ball was hurled in to the ‘keeper, who missed it. By the time it went over the boundary, the batsmen had completed their third run. I thought all this should total seven runs. Was I right?"
No. The correct answer here is six runs. In this situation, the overthrows are calculated from the moment the fielder throws the ball, not the moment it crosses the boundary. At the instant of the throw, having crossed on their second run, they score two. Add four for the overthrow to the boundary: Total six.
Law 19.6 Boundaries (Open Learning Manual Page 60)
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Comments
More confusion with overthrows, if the batsmen have run one before the fielder throws the ball, the keeper misses the ball and the ball then crosses the boundary, which batsmen takes strike? the original striker, although he is at the non-strikers end or the batsman now standing at the strikers end?
Cheers
The batsmen stay as they are with the chap who hit the ball now at the non strikers end.
Yesterday, in a crucial encounter between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier Leaque there was shot played by nayar to the deep square leg region and the batsmeen settled for one. While the throw returns from the boundary fielder the Leg Umpire caught in between the throuw and the wicket keeper. In such instance the umpire has to move away or avoid the through hitting him and heading for an over through. But the umpire has not even bouthered to see where the ball actually is. It is an umpiring error and the batsmen scampered for another run as they realised and started running after it hit the umpire. The extra run is been awarded in favour of the batting team. I would like to know whether the umpiring decision of awarding the extra run is correct in terms of umpiring error.
I heard a commentator mention this rule in a match a long time ago. I would appreciate it if you told me if this is correct. Let's say the batsman gets beaten and the wicketkeeper, standing back, catches the ball. The batsmen attempt to take a run. The wicketkeeper, with his gloves on, throws the ball at the wicket and it deflects off the wicket. The batsmen run a second run. The second overthrow run is not granted. However, if the keeper removes his outer glove and attempts to run out the batsman, then the overthrow run is granted as the ball is not dead. Is that right?
I had a issue close to this during our last season. Playing in a Twenty20 game, the batsman played and missed, i as keeper caught the ball then threw it back to the bowler, unfortunatly it went over his head and the batsman ran a single. To me, the ball was the, the ruling the umpire gave was 'in their opinion, the ball is dead when both sidesarent looking to score runs/take wkts'. Which i wasnt considering i was throwing the ball to the bowler not at the stumps. Anyone can help on this?
Until the ball comes to COMPLETE rest, it may not be considered as DEAD BALL.In your case, it is still in play as it was not collected fully by the bowler.Perhaps if you threw it to a slip fielder and then after say some reasonable time when the bowler was returning to his run up mark and then this had happened, then it would be a dead ball.As you directly collected and threw it to the bowler immediately after the ball was played and missed by the batsman, the run is allowed and it is not a Dead Ball.
Hi,
Batsman hit ball & took one run, and overthtow happened who will the owner for the overthrow runs team or the batsman????
The batsman.
While the batsman and runner were running, the ball, hit by the batsman, was overthrown.The overthrown ball hit the runner side wicket and kept rolling. The runner was within the grease when the ball hit the stumps and rolled off. The umpire called the ball 'dead' because it disturbed the runner side wickets and refused the runs taken by overthrow.Is the umpire right? Thank you
No he wasn't. the ball is still live after striking the stumps unless a wicket falls. There are certain exceptions but under normal circumstances the ball stays in play. If you want to know more about when the ball is dead have a look at Chapter 2 of my interactive course on umpiring.
Non- Striker batman now play , because batsman make one run so he can,t stike.
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