Can you take a hat-trick over two matches?

[steds]

6 different ways a wide can take a ball, I think.

Stumped, run out, handling the ball, obstruction of the field, timed out, hit the ball twice.

Good luck handling a wide.

 

[Richard]

Good luck hitting a wide once, never mind twice.

 

[luckyeddie]

Good luck handling a wide.

Ball delivered out of reach, signalled wide.

Ball lobbed back by a fielder, not dead because it has not been held in keeper's gloves or by the bowler.

Batsman picks it up without permission, fielder appeals.



(see law 33)

 

[imagine]

from india v england 1st odi (cricinfo)
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End of over 46 (9 runs) India 202/8 (RR: 4.39)
LE Plunkett 8-2-42-2 (2w)
RP Singh 1* (1b) Harbhajan Singh 37* (45b 3x4 1x6)

46.1 Ali to Singh, no run
46.2 Ali to Singh, one run, played to thirdman region
46.3 Ali to Harbhajan Singh, OUT: pitched up outside the off stump and
driven straight to the hands of Flintoff at extra cover

India 203/9, Partnership of 2
Harbhajan Singh c Flintoff b Ali 37 (46b 3x4 1x6)
RP Singh 2* (3b) Kabir Ali 8.3-1-45-3 (2w)

Sreesanth is the last batsman
46.4 Ali to Sreesanth, OUT: pitched up and Sreesanth drives, ball goes
up in the air and ball goes into the hands of Pieterson

India 203/10, Partnership of 0
S Sreesanth c Pietersen b Ali 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)
RP Singh 2* (3b) Kabir Ali 8.4-1-45-4 (2w)


I remember the cricinfo commentator saying Kabir Ali will be on a hat trick when he bowls next (During the match). but when i checked the ball by ball it wasn't there. so is he?

 

[marc71178]

Nope - they got it wrong.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Has that been defined anywhere?

To hazard a reasonably educated guess, a combination of consensus and tradition.

 

[Richard]

In other words, no.