SIX WICKETS—ONE BALL
A writer in the “Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News” (London) tells this story: —, . “Mr. A. E. E. Gilligan explained at a supper how six men could get out with one ball. “To- start with, one of the over-night not-outs arrives too late to go in. The first ball sent down is a no-ball, off which batsman No. 2 is run out. The third victim of this curious run of ‘bad luck’ does not come out from the pavilion in the stipulated time, and the fielding side’s protest is upheld. With two men at last at the wicket, a ball is bowled which one of the batsmen drives on to his partner’s head, knocking him out, and being caught himself off the rebound. • “That is five men out, and when the sixth man arrives at the wicket, last man in, there is no one to partner him. Six for one ball. Try this on your cricketing friends. * “Even that wonderful storehouse, the brain of Sydney Pardon, whose death last week came as a shock to the cricketing world, could not have contained anything so fantastic as this.” There is a flaw in this story. If a batsman exceeds the two minutes allowed him to reach the wickets the umpire has no power to give him out. The decision, on appeal, is to award the match to the opposing side. There are other flaws, but this one will suffice.
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Northern Advocate, 23 February 1926, Page 6
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240SIX WICKETS—ONE BALL Northern Advocate, 23 February 1926, Page 6
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