qpeedore
SOTM Winner - July 2014
1. The injured player has to be taken off. Not within the Spirit of the Game for either captain to allow a player who is so obviously injured to continue. The fielding team can continue with 10 men, although a substitute fielder can come from anywhere, even the opposing team or the spectators, without needing to be named in the team list (may need the match referee's consent, depending on the format being played.)
2. Not the usual switching after each over is what I meant. And it's not even switching ends. Once an umpire is at end A, he stays at end A all game. He just stands at square leg every other over, but it's still end A. In first class matches, umpires are to switch ends after each team has completed one innings. So after both teams have batted, umpire 1 switches from end A to end B and vice versa. In T20s, each team will have completed one innings if it goes to a Super Over. The question was, will umpire 1 go to end B and vice versa? The answer is no, end switching is not applicable in T20s. (But I have seen it happen, oddly enough.) The Super Over actually has quite a lot of interesting little rules and quirks that I might use here one day.
3. Initial signal indeed stands. (Again, I have seen otherwise happen, with the explanation coming at the start of play the next day.)
4. Agreed. Suspend play until it can be fixed and speak to the groundsman. If anything, they can probably use one of the tarps used for covering the pitch and drape it over the screen. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes to arrange that. Sponsors be damned.
5. Agreed.
Leaving some.
1. The striker hits the ball into the outfield and sets off. They run one and are on the way toward a second when a spectator runs onto the field and disrupts play. You naturally signal dead ball. How many runs are scored and which ends do the initial striker and non-striker return to? (This is a two-scenario answer, actually.)
2. In a T20 match, due to a couple of wides earlier in the over, you have unfortunately miscounted and allow a seventh (legal) ball. You realise your error just as the bowler is in his delivery stride. The bowler proceeds to deliver an above-waist full toss, which the batsman hits to the boundary. What happens now?
3.1. A batsman defends a ball. It rebounds off of his boot and begins to head for the stumps. Off-balance, he one-handedly swipes at the ball with his bat, only succeeding in getting the outer portion and sending it into the waiting hands of a fielder. They appeal. Is it out?
3.2. Suppose the batsman swipes at it with his free hand. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
3.3 Suppose the batsman swipes at it with his boot. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
3.4. Suppose the ball had hit the ground and not the boot. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
2. Not the usual switching after each over is what I meant. And it's not even switching ends. Once an umpire is at end A, he stays at end A all game. He just stands at square leg every other over, but it's still end A. In first class matches, umpires are to switch ends after each team has completed one innings. So after both teams have batted, umpire 1 switches from end A to end B and vice versa. In T20s, each team will have completed one innings if it goes to a Super Over. The question was, will umpire 1 go to end B and vice versa? The answer is no, end switching is not applicable in T20s. (But I have seen it happen, oddly enough.) The Super Over actually has quite a lot of interesting little rules and quirks that I might use here one day.
3. Initial signal indeed stands. (Again, I have seen otherwise happen, with the explanation coming at the start of play the next day.)
4. Agreed. Suspend play until it can be fixed and speak to the groundsman. If anything, they can probably use one of the tarps used for covering the pitch and drape it over the screen. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes to arrange that. Sponsors be damned.
5. Agreed.
Leaving some.
1. The striker hits the ball into the outfield and sets off. They run one and are on the way toward a second when a spectator runs onto the field and disrupts play. You naturally signal dead ball. How many runs are scored and which ends do the initial striker and non-striker return to? (This is a two-scenario answer, actually.)
2. In a T20 match, due to a couple of wides earlier in the over, you have unfortunately miscounted and allow a seventh (legal) ball. You realise your error just as the bowler is in his delivery stride. The bowler proceeds to deliver an above-waist full toss, which the batsman hits to the boundary. What happens now?
3.1. A batsman defends a ball. It rebounds off of his boot and begins to head for the stumps. Off-balance, he one-handedly swipes at the ball with his bat, only succeeding in getting the outer portion and sending it into the waiting hands of a fielder. They appeal. Is it out?
3.2. Suppose the batsman swipes at it with his free hand. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
3.3 Suppose the batsman swipes at it with his boot. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
3.4. Suppose the ball had hit the ground and not the boot. Everything else in 3.1 applies.
