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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: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:09:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.192950.13908@cc.gatech.edu>, pkohli@cc.gatech.edu (Prince Kohli) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan21.180619.3131@julian.uwo.ca>, raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:
- |> |> 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:
- |> |> |> >
- |> |> |> >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.
- |> |>
- |> |> 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.
- |>
- |> Well, I recounted the incident about Manjrekar above and I realize that
- |> I should have worded it differently. As a matter of fact, the shortleg
- |> himself was the one who caught the ball as it bounced off his helmet.
- |> Also, the commentator was pretty sure that it was a not out.
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- No! you dont have to write it differently, i did'nt read the first paragraph before
- writing (oops!) sorry for that, and thanks for clearing this thing up.
- Now my question is that, is this a new law? ( imean considering of halmet and
- e.g., shoes differently) or this was always the case?
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- |>
- |> Cheers,
- |>
- |> -Prince
- |> --
- |> pkohli@cc.gatech.edu | "What's so unpleasant about getting drunk?"
- |> Distributed Systems Group,| "Ask a glass of water." Hitchhikers'....
- |> College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
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- S.R.Raza.
- raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
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