Official, confirmed, verified "You are the umpire" thread

[qpeedore]

Out is out...the umpire doesn't have to justify the dreaded index finger. Once there is a "how's that my good gentleman" beforehand, or more commonly, "owwwwwsseeeee...howzatttttt, howwww, please give him out?"

 

[qpeedore]

Okay here's an old school one. Why do they call a non scoring delivery a dot ball?

 

[Yash.]

Okay here's an old school one. Why do they call a non scoring delivery a dot ball?

Cause, scorers used to represent them with dots?

 

[CerealKiller]

Out is out...the umpire doesn't have to justify the dreaded index finger. Once there is a "how's that my good gentleman" beforehand, or more commonly, "owwwwwsseeeee...howzatttttt, howwww, please give him out?"

I think AHHHHHHHH is more common these days

 

[zimrahil]

Cause, scorers used to represent them with dots?

I would concur with that .....

 

[qpeedore]

Correct, now can anyone give me a list of scoring notations without double checking anywhere?

 

[Fake Passport]

Correct, now can anyone give me a list of scoring notations without double checking anywhere?

Not a chance in hell, I can talk to you all day about umpiring, scoring on the other hand...

 

[Fake Passport]

1. Cricket is traditionally played between 2 teams of 11. The teams say they want to make things interesting and make it a game of two teams of 8. Do you allow this?

By agreement you can pretty much go with as many or few players as you want.

2. The umpire takes a knock to the head and goes off. Under the laws, what happens?

A replacement is found, they can only act as strikers end unless the captain's agree they can be a full umpire.

3. What is denoted by the umpire crossing their hands on their chest?

Revoke last signal.

4. According to the laws, what is the ball to be made of?

Trick question. There's nothing in the law to say what the ball is to be made of.

5. Is a batsmen out caught and a batsmen dismissed caught the same thing at law?

No - The batsmen is out whenever the criteria is met, they are dismissed when the umpire raises the finger.

6. The 9th wicket falls a minute before the scheduled time for lunch. What happens?

Taken immediately.

 

[qpeedore]

To your last statement, can't the fielding team take an extra 30 minutes if they wish? I just remembered something like that being possible.

EDIT: come on, the upside down triangles and the crosses and the little circles with numbers in them? Scoring symbols aren't THAT hard...confusing yes, but not hard...

 

[Fake Passport]

To your last statement, can't the fielding team take an extra 30 minutes if they wish? I just remembered something like that being possible.

That was going to be in my next series of questions. That proviso you are thinking of only applies to tea, not to lunch.

I only realised that recently, Ive probably enforced it for a lunch break. Oops!

 

[qpeedore]

At what point can a fielder move significantly during the time a ball is bowled? (Not counting walking in a few paces, which is very much allowed.)

 

[Fake Passport]

EDIT: come on, the upside down triangles and the crosses and the little circles with numbers in them? Scoring symbols aren't THAT hard...confusing yes, but not hard...

I'm sure, I'm just saying I'll happily leave that for the scorers haha. I have much respect for scorers, in alot of ways have to know the laws better than umpires, dont get the benefit of every second over at square leg. Constantly have players surrounding them at breaks etc. Tbh I think umpiring is easier!

 

[qpeedore]

That was going to be in my next series of questions. That proviso you are thinking of only applies to tea, not to lunch.

I only realised that recently, Ive probably enforced it for a lunch break. Oops!

It also applies to the final session of multi-day games once it's not the final day. Seen it a couple of times. Honestly did not know it doesn't apply to the lunch break though. Learning more and more.

 

[qpeedore]

I'm not a scorer. And to those guys, much respect.

Not checking anything on Wikipedia etc here, just from memory. Hopefully I recall these things properly. No disrespect meant to any scorers.

Dot of course is a non-scoring delivery.

A number means the amount of runs scored off of the bat.

An open circle is a no ball. A number inside of the circle indicates how many runs have been scored off of that no ball.

A cross (or plus sign) is a wide. Runs scored off of it are written in the upper left quadrant.

I believe, but am not sure, that a wicket is an x.

Byes and leg byes are triangles. Think byes are the ones with the wide end down, and otherwise for leg byes with the wide end up.

At the moment that's what I can recall, wrong as some of them might be...

Drawing on the scorecard is optional, but encouraged...

 

[Fake Passport]

It also applies to the final session of multi-day games once it's not the final day. Seen it a couple of times. Honestly did not know it doesn't apply to the lunch break though. Learning more and more.

I don't have them in front of me, but I don't think that exists in the laws themselves, that's something that the governing bodies put in.