Why on a ball pitching outside the leg stump, LBW is note given?

Question

It would have been simple for umpires if literal meaning of LBW is considered (Leg Before Wicket. Is there any specific incident which prompted to frame this rule?

See how Warne dismisses most of the batsmen round his legs. That means balls pitching outside the leg stump can hit the stumps. Peterson was out likewise in the just concluded Test Match at Adelaide.

Answer 1

LBW Rules before 1935 did not allow for a dismissal if the ball was pitched either outside off stump or leg stump.

In 1932 the game was hit by the famous bodyline controversy. Harold Larwood the exponent of this alarming bodyline technique claimed justification of his method due to the frustration caused by the then LBW law. He suggested that the only practical move to neutralize his leg theory was to alter the LBW law to allow "Out" decision if the ball would have hit the wicket even if pitched off the wicket on the off side.

Post Bodyline, in 1935 the Advisory County Cricket Committee voted to give trial to a change in the law so that a batsman could be given out to a ball pitching outside the off stump. The change was aimed at obliterating the excessive pad play that had crept into the game. Wisden, however, felt that the new rule did not go far enough, because it gave an apparent advantage to the off spinners and the in-swing bowlers while the leg spinners were ignored.

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Why on a ball pitching outside the leg stump, LBW is note given?
It would have been simple for umpires if literal meaning of LBW is considered (Leg Before Wicket. Is there any specific incident which prompted to frame this rule?

Answer 3

Umpire will give a batsman out if he feel that if the Ball will hit the wicket if it was stuck on the pad of the batsman. If the ball is pitched outside the stump even if it did not stuck the pad, it would not have hit the wicket/stump. Hence the batsmen is not given out. Same is the case if the ball hit the pad above the height of the stump as the ball would have gone over the stump if it was stuck on the pad.

Answer 4

Because bowling outside the legstump is negative bowling and does not allow the batsman to score runs and hence a batsman can never be adjudged LBW if ball pitches outside Leg stump(unless of course the umpire makes a blunder).

Answer 5

becuase the umpire is standing in line with the stumps, so its hard to tell - in 3 dimensions as he looks at it - if a ball pitching outside would come back and hit the stumps. the ball cannot pitch outside leg, and also must hit the batsmans pad while it is line with the stumps as well, otherwise he is not out. thats called "outside the line" (of off or leg stump).

unless, the batsman doesnt play a shot, in which cas he does not have to be hit in line to be out LBW, but the ball still cannot pitch outside leg stump.

Answer 6

basically LBW means leg before wicket the ball should be pitched in line of the stumps..the basic is the ball which is in line of the stumps is given out because the ball not pitched in line genreally dont hit the stumps

Answer 7

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Answer 8

the ball pictching outside leg stump is not out because it is not in line with stumps and many balls pitching outside the leg stump can go hit the stumps so it is only out when the ball pitches in line with the stumps

Answer 9

Look! There r lots of changes time to time in ICC rules & regulations. Basically a ball pitching outside legstump has very rare chance of hitting the wicket nomatter how sharp the spinner is. So to make that clear cut the rule has been constructed in the favour of the batsman as usually happens.

Answer 10

Yes.He can be out as the ball comes on to hit the wicket.