Funny cricket moments of 2006 and 2007

[L1011]

Help a Yank time....

In this video the batsman is declared, I believe, bowled out when his helmet comes off and hits the stump. Wouldn't he be out LBW even if the helmet hadn't hit the stump? Or does a ball to the head not count as LBW?

If the trajectory of the ball would hit the stumps, then its LBW. I am guessing, because I can not see the video, but if the ball hit the helmet then it was already higher than then stumps.

El please correct clarify if I am wrong.

Partly right Giles.

The Ball has to pitch in a particular area to be considered for LBW, depending upon how it's bowled ( the particular style of delivery ) to a great extent ( TOO complicated to go into here for me ).

Some deliveries by real masters ( Muraly, Shane Warne) may defeat even this law

[reubee]

Help a Yank time....

In this video the batsman is declared, I believe, bowled out when his helmet comes off and hits the stump. Wouldn't he be out LBW even if the helmet hadn't hit the stump? Or does a ball to the head not count as LBW?

If the trajectory of the ball would hit the stumps, then its LBW. I am guessing, because I can not see the video, but if the ball hit the helmet then it was already higher than then stumps.

El please correct clarify if I am wrong.

Partly right Giles.

The Ball has to pitch in a particular area to be considered for LBW, depending upon how it's bowled ( the particular style of delivery ) to a great extent ( TOO complicated to go into here for me ).

Some deliveries by real masters ( Muraly, Shane Warne) may defeat even this law

Technically the ball doesn't have to pitch for an LBW. You can be LBW after missing a full toss.

El: care to comment on the ball that dismissed de Villiers earlier in the week.

Any English: care to comment on the inadequacies of your bowling attack in the recent one day series

[reubee]

Oh yeah.... I remember watching that live....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_b ... nt_of_1981

Chappell brothers took a ribbing for that for a long time.

the real reason Australia wears canary yellow.

[el]

El: care to comment on the ball that dismissed de Villiers earlier in the week.

That was a correct decision by the umpires. The law states that the ball may not bounce more than twice. It bounced twice, so they were correct. I have to admit, though, that I haven't seen a ball bouncing twice on first class level for a long time.

[el]

Partly right Giles.

The Ball has to pitch in a particular area to be considered for LBW, depending upon how it's bowled ( the particular style of delivery ) to a great extent ( TOO complicated to go into here for me ).

Not necessarily. If a batsman does not offer a shot he can be given out even if the ball hits the pad outside leg or off stump. If he does try to play a shot he should not be given out.

[AndyToop]

Another correction: he would have actually been dismissed for a hit wicket, not bowled out as I said in my original post. I'll understand this tea and cucumber sport evenetually.

I try this every time I´m in South Africa (every two months). Being dumb and all that, I´m beginning to figure the rules .......... I think. But I´ll probably never figure the kick of the game.

There might be a chance if they start now playing cricket in a pitch dark stadium with a luminous bat and ball.

Pipe

I'm sure they'll come up with a version of 20/20 that's pretty close to that sooner or later