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Wide Ball
In cricket, a wide is a type of Illegal delivery (cricket), illegal delivery to a Batting (cricket), batter (the other type being a no-ball) that is judged by the umpire (cricket), umpire to be too wide or (in international cricket) too high to be hit by the batsman by means of a normal cricket shot. It is also a type of Extra (cricket), extra, being the Run (cricket), run awarded to the batting team as a consequence of such an illegal delivery. Definition Wide balls are covered by Law 22 of the Laws of Cricket. A delivery is a wide if it is not sufficiently within reach for the batter to be able to hit it with the bat by means of a normal cricket stroke from where the batter is standing, and also would not have been sufficiently within reach for the batter to be able to hit it with the bat by means of a normal cricket stroke if the batter were standing in a normal Batting (cricket)#Stance, guard position. Therefore a delivery is not a wide if the ball hits the bat or batsman, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umpire Signalling A Wide
An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', "equal": "one who is requested to act as arbiter of a dispute between two people". (as evidenced in cricket, where dismissal decisions can only be made on appeal). Noumper shows up around 1350 before undergoing a linguistic shift known as false splitting. It was written in 1426–1427 as a noounpier; the ''n'' was lost with the ''a'' indefinite article becoming ''an''. The earliest version without the n shows up as owmpere, a variant spelling in Middle English, circa 1440. The leading n became permanently attached to the article, changing it to an Oumper around 1475. The word was applied to the officials of many sports including baseball, association football (where it has been superseded by '' assistant-referee'') and cricket (which stil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
