CRICKET LAW

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1929, Page 5

CRICKET LAW

PROPOSED CHANGES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this clay at 11 a.in., LONDON, April 21. Marylobonc’s sub-committee, appointed to consider R. H. Lyttelton's proposal to alter the leg ibefore wicket law, to include balls pitching outside the wicket, issued a report and recommendations, which will be considered at a meeting of the Advisory County Committee and Board of Control on April 2Gth. The recommendations include tho widening and heightening of the wicket by one inch. The striker may he given out leg before, even though the ball may have first hit the bat or the hand. They suggest the elimination of the latter part of law twenty-seven, from the word “except” to the end, depriving the batsman of the right to stop the hall from hitting tho wicket after it had once been struck. A fielding side should bo allowed to demand a new ball after 150 runs were made. It recommended tho boundary immediately behind the bowler’s arm be limited to approximately 80 yards, from the strikers wicket and extend in a straight line till it meets the normal side boundaries. The maximum time for the actual rolling

of the ground should be reduced to seven minutes instead of ten. Tho sub-committee states the changes recommended are meant to apply only to County cricket and are solely' in an experimental state.