Picture these two scenarios:
1. Batsman hits the ball towards boundary, fielder attempts to stop ball, fumbles it, and the ball goes over the rope. Before the ball reached the fielder, the batsmen have already completed one run and are returning for the second.
The batsmen will be awarded 4 runs.
2. Batsman hits the ball towards boundary. The fielder collects and throws back to wicketkeeper. The batsmen have a single at this point. The throw from the fielder is bad, and misses the wicket keeper and goes to the boundary for four.
In this occasion, the batsman will be awarded 5 runs.
Why in the second scenario do runs run by the batsmen before the ball reaches the boundary count towards the total, while in the first scenario they don't.
Surely both situations are technically a misfield (although admitedly one is more obviously than the other).
Does this mean at some point eh Umpire makes an objective call between a 'misfield' and a 'fumble'?
What do the cricket laws state?
2007-06-02
11:54:56
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