Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

92 THE Ml2ADIAD 1 JtIGKEqT FIBLD. IX.-Tle bowler changing wicket, twice during an munings, a man hits a bail and it only toucher i leaf or so, and its pro. means his going t,. the other end to that fron which he bas gress is not imîpedcd thereby, he is of course out if caught. If beeu bowling, and then returning to it, and there is thus given the hand in catching the ball touches the ground it mnakes no to him the opportunity te bowl four overs out of five. He can difference, the man being ont so long as the bal itself has not deliver an over at one énd, thon change wickets and deliver touohed it. fron the other end, then wait while another over is being XVII.- Part of your foot or the bat should bo groundcd bowled, and then go on in tori with his over, change to bis within the popping-crease; the striker is out if he is on the lino original end, and bowl the over foCowing, thus in first-class and no part of bis foot or bat inside it. Should a man in making matches sending in eight successive balls twice in an innings ! a run jupl in the air just before he reaches the creuse, in order I think it would he a very good thing if this rie were altered, to avoid being hit by the bal, and the bal] bits the wicket so as to allo w the bowler te change ends as often as le liked, before h touches the ground. although he nay b vell over the provided that he never bowled two srccessive overs. crease, he is out. Again, should lie reacli bis ground and then X.-This rule, about the understanding of which there is juinp up, und the ball hit. the wicket while lie is in the air, he little difliculty, ouglt to be strictly enforced ; but owing te the is out, although sone umpires would decide te the contrary. weak.mindedness of the umpires of the present day it rarely is, The rule was not made to meet such a case, but as it stands it and nany bowlers, or rather throwers, are allowed to infringe leaves no doubt in the matter; giving the man out would, how- it with impunity. Thte unipires own that the men throw, but ever, be against the spirit of the law. have not the courage to speak out and " no bail " them. The XVIlI.-iÂ.., rule says the man is out if ho bits down his matter ought really to be taken up at head-quarters, and wicket, but says nothing about the bails, though, of course, if a orders given te the umipires to enforce the law. A jerk can bail is dislodged the man is out. If the striker hits the bail be detected by the blow of the armi against the side as it is into h:c partner's wicket, the latter is not ont unIess 1e is out made. " No bail " shouild be called the instant the bail leaves of bis ground and the bail is touched by one of the field on its the bowler's hand. road from the bat. It is only in striking at the ball, not in XI.-" During the over " might be added with advantage to running, that a ian can b out for hitting the wicket. 'this rule. The bowler, to prevent the batsman getiing in hie XIX.- -This rule je not generally uderstood. I have way, may direct Iima te stand which side he pleIaes, se as to known an umpire give the man out who ran against a fields. have room to bowl, but of course it would not be fair te make man and prevented himi catching a ball whieh his partner had him change bis place every bal]. Law XXXVI. would meet bit. This was a wrong décision; the rule says distinctly the such cases as this. "striker " is out, the reason being that had the fielder not been XII.-lt is on the batsmlan that the fact of a hall being wide interfered with lie would have probably cauglt the bail, and principally depends ; what is wide to one may net be s0 te the striker would have been out-caught out. The rule is, of another. It sonetines pays to bowl wides ta entice the striker course, against wilful obstruction, and net only includes knock- to bit at them and give catches. Wides can be run for the ing up against the fieldsman, but yeling and hootig so as to sanie as byes, but of course there is co object i runnig a confuse aim. In all such cases l t it be borne in mind that single unless te change the batsmnen, as one is scored without th* "istikser " is out. quitting the wicket. XX.--Wilfilly strikhig the bail again does not menu pre- XIII.-Running for vides and ne balls is optional, and venting its rebounding into his wicket, but hitting it se as to- there is seldomu an object in crossing if there is only a chance score off it. of a single. Should, however, a no bail be hit, and a run XXI.-The wicket-keeper must knock down the wicket made, the run counts te the striker. A mian can only be out with the hand that the ball is in. It matters net if the bat is by running out fron a no bail, but 1 once witnessed a curious dropped se long as the batsman geLs into his ground. There is incident in which a man bowled a no bail and the striker ran no advantage in dropping the bat, for.though you may run out of his ground, and just touched the bal], wivich went into lighter you have- t run farther, as, instepd of reaching out and the wicket-keeper's hand, who put down the wicket, and the touehing the ground, you have to run over the crease each man was out-" run out." A hard case for the striker, for lad 'time. The question often arises, " If a man can b put out ho simply miiissed the bail he could not have been stunped. It without extracting a stump, should one bail be off " Of course would be well if somnething was said in the rule about the man le can, as the rule says if both bails are off. If a stump is being out only in the event of his attemiptiing a run, pulled up to make a man out after the bails are off, it must be XIV.-The words I trial ball " in this rule do net mena done by the hands or hand in which the bail is, and it does net that a man should net bowl a bail te get the stiffness off bis do te pull up the stump with one band while the ball is in the muscles, but that a bowler should net bowl down on the wicket other, and then knock themu togther-a thing which has been XV.-This rule is rather vague. For instance, supposing donc, though no one would think so, in a first-class match. the bails are blown off (as occasionally occums if playing.goes (To be continued.) on in a boisterous -wind), agd are off just as the bowler delivers i the ball, and the ball bits the wicket but does not take the;- stump out of the ground, the man, owing to the bails net beircg }r](1) on the stumps, is " not out." Rule XXXVI. gives the umpire power to act sensibly in the matter, though I have known a ~ case -where the man was given in, and correctly se according toi In a. match Yorkshire v. Gloucester, the former made 112 and the strict letter of this rule, there being nothing mentioned to 148, the latter 120 and 109. Peate bowled E. M. and IV. G. Grace meet the case, whi<h is by no means exceptional. The rule fo)r 0 the first iuings ; the second tley made 13 and 56 respectively. could casily be worded so as to be applicable under all circuma- A noteworthy fact for cricket coincidenciste is that precisely thu stances-its intention is obvions enough. same large score, namely 117, was made in two places ou July 31st -by Mr. WV. W. Rond, at the Oval for Surrey, and by Floweme at XVI.-If a ball is caug t off a tree, or a liuse, or such like, ambridge for M.C ,fd the striker is out tinless it lias previously been agreed that such g trac, etc., i.s not in th3 ground. The rule was never meant to The Australian cricketers propose te journey home by way of imply that Lie batmaux siocid Lo ont ewing te the bail lodging Anerica, and in all probability matches will be arranged on their implyat theatsman soud be toing on the alleldin behalf at PIadelpla and NewYork, as well asperhaps at Detroit. in a tree or a gutter and bei- fetched down by a fieldsman On thcir roturn te Australia they will play the Hon. Ivo. Bligh's It is uch tLie best plan, where tiere are trees or otlier obstacles English Eleven twice, at Melbournon January 1, and at Adolaide in the grountd, for the two sides to agree before the mcatc' comn-, on 26tl of same month. Thore is every chance also of their mecet- mences that cases sucb as wre have noted should be net out. If. ang Fifteen of South Australia at Adelaide.