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Why is that place to the left of the wicket called, 'leg'
and the right of the wicket called, 'off'
Leg off.
and the right of the wicket called, 'off'
Leg off.
Right basically there are three stumps that make up a wicket. Off stump, middle stump and leg stump. The leg stump is the one that's behind the batman's leg and the off stump on the opposite side. Now, the area on the right of the leg stump(a left handed batmen would have his leg stump on the left side) is called the legside or sometimes the 'onside'.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for clearing that up mate.
I've never understood the rule why you can't be given out LBW if the ball pitches outside leg stump, regardless if impact is in line, and it's dead dead dead obvious that the ball's going to hit the stumps....
Explain that to me. I've been trying to figure that out for years why that rule is in place?!
Explain that to me. I've been trying to figure that out for years why that rule is in place?!
Whatever happened to Paul Jarvis?
Why don't games start before 11am?
Cricketers are well known for enjoying a hearty breakfast.
Why is the English and Welsh cricket team called the England cricket team?
Wales blows.
That's because was Wales weren't included initially. I suppose you could start a campaign to change the name, though.
They do in other parts of the world.
Paul Jarvis is a painter and decorater in Skipton.
This one's slightly more complicated - from what I can recall, it's to stop bowlers from bowling around the wicket(completely off the wicket) and aiming at leg stump - which is what used to happen hence the law.
I think they saw that as negative play.
Why is the fielding position called "silly point"?
Probably because you'd have to be crazy to field there.
Ok Spoony, why is the Chinaman delivery thus called?
Why is Cricket so shit and boring yet I still find myself playing/coaching, and watching it when it's on? EVEN when it's in the middle of our Football season too.
Fair enough, but still very silly rule, especially considering nowadays you've the got white marks at the non-strikers end, wider of which you're not allowed to bowl.......
Highly unfair for leg spinners especially if they try pitching the delivery just outside leg stump..all we'll be getting is intentional padding.
The origin of the term "chinaman" is reported to have originated after Achong had Walter Robbins stumped during the Manchester Test of 1933. According to Richie Benaud, as Robbins walked back to pavilion he said to Joe Hardstaff Snr, the umpire: "Fancy being done by a bloody chinaman".
Apparently.
Can you explain cricket to noodles please.
They had the same rules for the offside - well, sort of. A couple of decades ago, batsmen could pad the ball away on the offside and not be given out. But they changed the rule, thankfully. So, now, you can be given out for not playing at the ball.
Because you don't like cricket - you love it.
What doesn't Noodle-muppet understand?!!
The whole game.
It's because it would be ridiculously difficult to play leg-spin. Imagine Shane Warne at his peak, on the fifth day of a test, bowling round the wicket into the rough, and LBWs allowed. The innings would literally last about seven minutes.
Basically, they rules are different on the offside because it was thought it would encourage attacking play.
Why are the powers that be not sensibly enough to do the same here then.
Seems barmy to me that a game that can lose so much time to the weather doesn't start earlier.
Stupid game.
Is square cut a hairstyle?
It may have something to do with the morning dew. Not sure, though. But yeah it seems silly to start a game at 11 am - and go off for bad light at 5pm.
What does the captain mean when he sends out a batsman with the instructions "play safe"?
Nah, it's to negate negative bowling. But yeah Warne and his ilk would be impossibe to play. Murali perhaps more so, because he's got more variation - whereas Warne never developed a proper googly.
Play like Collingwood I presume ie boring as feck.
Are you any good at the game Spoony?
I was a pretty decent bowler and a right hot headed batsman ie loved to swing at everything. This might come as a surprise but I was in my school football and cricket team. But I'm probably shite at both now. I was also decent at badminton.
Are you admitting being a swinger?
Historically perhaps, but the main effect of legalising it now would be to make playing leg-spin impossible.
Spoony said:
Feck googlies, all he'd have to do is bowl leg-breaks outside leg. It's hard enough padding up to the cnuts without giving a catch or getting bowled round your legs, if you couldn't pad up you'd be stuffed. There'd be like eight close fielders round the bat, and on the fifth day it would all be over before lunch.
I know what a googly is and I know what the "doosra" is (off spinners wrong'un right?)
but I never understood the difference between a chinaman, a flipper and a top-spinner.
Explain please.
but I never understood the difference between a chinaman, a flipper and a top-spinner.
Explain please.
Irrelevant.
School is ages back mate...So you gave it up straight after?
I got an offer from Surrey CC last week, they're scout came up to watch our cup final.
Problem being that was my last game for the club side as i got bored of giving up so much time to a game i don't enjoy a great deal anymore playing wise...
I have a dilemma now.
True. But there are calls to change the laws. As for Warne, I reckon batsmen would('ve) attack(ed)him more. Whereas Murali would be much harder to play if the laws were changed. Pure conjecture, though. - but I think I'm right.
er. . yes.