CRICKET
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. Cricketer: You ask: “The bowler pitches the ball outside the leg stump; the batsman moves in to the wicket,; and the ball strikes his leg—is he j out?”—No. Rule 24 governs the matter. it says the batsman is out; l.b.w. only if he with any part of his person stops th.*' bill, which On the opinion of the umpire at the bowler s wicket shall have been pitched in. a straight line from it to the str. ker s wicket, and would have hit it. Thus the umpire has discretion when the ball is pitched in the said straight line, but if the ball is not pitched in such straight line, .the batsman cannot be given out l.b.w.
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Grey River Argus, 23 October 1930, Page 4
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122CRICKET Grey River Argus, 23 October 1930, Page 4
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