CAUGHT WRONG BAILS.
A CRICKETING INCIDENT; -■■■ While two cricket matches were in progress on Parliament Hill Fields, ; London, ;r' ;' the long fields in both, games had to go for catches at the.same moment. , , They both succeeded, | the catches being X - made i within a few yards of . each other. :!.-■ Five minutes ; later one, of the ; bowlers y; found^tbat; he was playing •: with a Bti*sgb ;.'■ :.\\ ball. The long fields had caught the wrong -balls.l,;-- ; ,..' '•/....:■'.,:>'■.• M- ■ ■:."■ '.;'". "> The batsmen who had b eeiv « out then urged fy that they should still .be m. and : the two umpires, after conferring together, j decided I to! allow ; them to resume yyyyy batting. - ' < . ;: The M.0.0.'s instructions to umpires ■ contain the following paragraph:— J. . "An umpire may alter his decision, i"..;< '■ in the hurry of the moment or,by a• »lip ;' -. of the tongue he has given : a wrong t one; • provided that such alteration Is mad©, :. promptly." * . An alteration ■-• made t five ;i minutes later would, therefore, appear to be vagainst the laws of the game! vi; '-' - '■■•;.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 9
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