OVER THE FENCE FOR SIX
I_J APPENINGS in the recent J match between Auckland and I Wellington have caused the J Auckland Cricket Association to | reconsider the alteration in the i boundary which was made last ! season. Until a year ago the I fenco: bounding the oval was the • boundary, and a shot which hit \ the fence, whether on the ground I cr en the full, counted four only. J A sixer could be scored only by g a ball clearing the fence on the ■ full. Last season, however, a J Irack 18 inches wide was cut ■ inside the fencc and the edge of ■ the grass constituted the br.un- j dary. It was left to O. C. Cleal I to make the change known last * Monday week, and he did so bv | scoring a six with a stroke which I hit the f?nce near the members' ! stand. Toward the end of Wei- | lington's innings Burgess, in ' catching Ashenden, went over on . to the track and hit the fence, I I but the umpire held that the catch J ! was made inside the boundary t I and gave the batsman out. It was I • to lessen the chance of injury to J I players that the boundary was t I made inside the fence. The 1 J executive last night decided that , I the inside boundary shall remain I I as far as scoring a four is con- J J cerr.cd, but that a sixer can be ( I scored only if the fence is I I cleaved, it was also decided that J • a fieldsman can catch a batsman | I out anywhere inside the fence, • ■ even though he be standing on I I the track. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 12
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