The Laws state (unchanged in many years) that a delivery that would otherwise be called a wide shall not be a wide if a batsman moves to bring it within reach - whether or not a stroke is actually played. There can be variations for limited overs games.Around the year 1998 there was a rule that if you attempted to hit a wide it wasn't a wide (because you had covered it with your bat. If you shouldered arms to it then the umpire might call it. Infuriating rule that lasted for 1-2 seasons.
In the regulations for (I suspect all) Club cricket in the UK this is now the case. Essentially is a batsman's back shoulder when the ball becomes live becomes his front shoulder when it is played you apply the 'wide' guidelines marked at he creases. That is a simplified summary. I don't know if it applies at a higher level.I still think batsmen should not be given leg side wides if they are attempting switch hits or reverse sweeps. It is one way to help out the poor spinners, esp. in T20s. By all means call it a wide if it is out of reach but do not apply the stupid leg stump wide rule when the batsman has changed his grip and is basically being a left hand batsman (if he is a RHB)
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I don't understand this, ultimately for the rule to work, the ball has to be in line with the stumps, and hit the stumps, now, please tell me how a ball pitching outside leg, but in line with the stump and hitting them is "hard for a batsman to put away with the bat"?Because you can actually hit it with your bat out there. Or, at least, you're expected to.
I have seen VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar play leg side more easily than off side, Tendulkar for example made a double hundred by playing almost all leg side strokes. So it is more like batsmen needing to skill up to deal with such deliveries and improve on their leg side play.Because there's a blind spot there. Also you'd see everyone bowling around the wicket with a packed legside field.
Try regularly hitting leg stump yorkers bowled from around the wicket and you'll soon find out.I don't understand this, ultimately for the rule to work, the ball has to be in line with the stumps, and hit the stumps, now, please tell me how a ball pitching outside leg, but in line with the stump and hitting them is "hard for a batsman to put away with the bat"?
Try hitting any yorkers when bowled regularly. The counter arguments are getting flimsier and flimsier.Try regularly hitting leg stump yorkers bowled from around the wicket and you'll soon find out.
Oh word, didn't know they were using the outside leg stump LBW rule in those innings'.I have seen VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar play leg side more easily than off side, Tendulkar for example made a double hundred by playing almost all leg side strokes. So it is more like batsmen needing to skill up to deal with such deliveries and improve on their leg side play.
Apart from the romanticism, do you really think there is an associate country that has shown consistently good performances to warrant a test spot?The treatment of the Associates.
They were asked to qualify for every tournament no matter how well they did beforehand. They did.
They were asked to win qualifying tournaments in conditions that were nothing like the actual tournament. They did
They were asked to do it on minimal budget. They did.
They were asked to go professional on minimal budget. They did.
They were asked to perform against the full members. They did.
They were told if they wanted to play test cricket they needed to fulfil a criteria some full members would fail. They are.
Yet you're still not ****ing welcome. Now **** off.
We're about to lose a golden generation of Associate cricketers.
He didn't say they deserve test spots. Atleast that's not his entire point.Apart from the romanticism, do you really think there is an associate country that has shown consistently good performances to warrant a test spot?
And no, I don't think Zim or Ban deserves test spots either at the moment, and I fear WI is already heading that way.
Depends what your definition of "quite well" is.Ireland seemed to perform well at every World Cup they were at