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- From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
- Subject: Re: Javed's attitute and a question.
- Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:06:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.180619.3131@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan19.063117.6718@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, robert@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Robert Van Doorn) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan18.181913.25824@cc.gatech.edu> pkohli@cc.gatech.edu (Prince Kohli) writes:
- |> >In article <1993Jan18.100507.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, mdmjs@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
- |> >|>
- |> >|> What would happen if the batsman smashed a ball (on the full), into
- |> >|> the helmet of a player at short-leg and it got stuck between the
- |> >|> cage on the helmet and the visor on the helmet. Lets say the fielder
- |> >|> in uninjured and pulls the ball out quickly, and tries to claim a
- |> >|> catch. My guess is not out, as the ball was lodged and hence "dead ball".
- |> >|> True?
- |> >
- |> >It's definitely not out. Something similar happened recently in RSA,
- |> >when Manjrekar hit a ball hard onto the short leg's helmet - the ball
- |> >then looped up and the fielder claimed a catch, which the umpire upheld.
- |> >Manjrekar protested and the umpire declared him not out. Something
- |> >like this had apparently also happened in B'bay before.
- |> >
- |> About 9 or 10 years ago here in Australia we had a situation in a test match
- |> where the batsman bottom edged a cut shot onto the keepers boot (he was up
- |> to the stumps for the spinner), the ball popped up and first slip took the
- |> catch. The umpire judged this as out. How is this different from hitting the
- |> ball into short leg's helmet and another fieldsman completing the catch???
- |>
- |> Rob, AAITP.
- |>
- |>
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- I think if the ball rebounds from the helmet and someone completes
- the catch, then the batsman is out. But if it got stuck in the Helmet
- then five runs will be awarded to the batsman.
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- S.R.Raza.
- raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
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