CORRESPONDENCE.
[The editor is not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] (To the Editor ,) Sir, —To decide a good many disputes would.you please inform me what the law is in regard to putting a man out l.b.w. If a man is bowling round the wicket wbat is the law if it strikes the batsman on the leg ? By answering the above in your noxt issue you will oblige.—Yours etc. Cricket. [The rule reads ‘ The Striker is out if with any part of his person he stops the ball, which in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler’s wicket shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker’s wicket, and would have hit it.’ It will be seen from this rule that unless a ball pitch on some spot in a direct line between the two wickets a striker cannot be out leg before wicket. It is considered almost impossible for a person bowling round the wicket to get a striker out ‘ leg before ’ unless he bowls so that the ball pitches in a direct line between the wickets and then bieaks back so as to keep in the line of the wicket. For your own satisfaction get three straight sticks, about six feet long : place one at the spot where a howler round the wicket delivers his ball, place the second in the place of the off stump of the wicket bowled at, and place the third in a direct line between the other two and also in the line of sight between the two wickets. This will show you how far from the batsmen the ball can be pitched and yet strike the off stump, and you will know for yourself that in order to strike the other stumps the ball would hare to be pitched still nearer the batsman. We think upon practical examination you will find that a batsman standing even so as to half cover his wicket to a bowler over » wicket would not be out l: leg before *’ to a bowler round the wicket. We have gone into this rather lengthily as it is a question which has this season very much exercised cricketers at Fort Albert as well as in this immediate district. Ed.J
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 227, 8 December 1893, Page 5
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