LEG BEFORE WICKET.
TO THE EUITOU. Sir, — Will you kindly insert in your valuable paper the enclosed clipping from the X.Z. Referee of December :!ad t ISS7, now recigniscd ns au authority ou all sporting matters, which bears ou the matter of leg before wicket generally, and more particularly on certain decisions given Lately in the match Hamilton r. TaupirL—l am, &c,, K. B. Go\. CRICKKT. 4 * Lkithanukii" (Christchurch). ~We do not sec any difference between a right or iwt-handed batsman in your question. According to a huh authority on the game, experiments haw shown that it is almost impossible for a player to be out leg before wicket if the bowler i» bowling round the wick *t. if the bill was pitched close up to the stumps, the striker would be out, but, if it pitched outside the popping crease, he would be not out, as from there it could not pitch in a straight line from the bowler s wicket and then Lit the strikers wicket.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2
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168LEG BEFORE WICKET. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2
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