Black Thunder
School Boy/Girl Captain
This is an intersting one and was very close to what occured when Astle was dismissed first ball to put Vaas on a hat trick in the second test over in kiwi land.
If the batsmen goes forward to defend the ball, the ball hits his knee flap and wedges the knee flap between bat and ball and the ball baloons up to be caught, is he out??
The ball hasn't directly hit the bat because between the bat and ball is the knee flap of the pad, but the direction of the ball has been directly influence by the bat.....
It's a very unlikely situation to occur because you'd have to play the ball extremely awkwardly, and the umpire would have even less chance of being able to pick up that the knee flap was between bat and ball, but under the rules of cricket is this out??
If the batsmen goes forward to defend the ball, the ball hits his knee flap and wedges the knee flap between bat and ball and the ball baloons up to be caught, is he out??
The ball hasn't directly hit the bat because between the bat and ball is the knee flap of the pad, but the direction of the ball has been directly influence by the bat.....
It's a very unlikely situation to occur because you'd have to play the ball extremely awkwardly, and the umpire would have even less chance of being able to pick up that the knee flap was between bat and ball, but under the rules of cricket is this out??
