New Cricket Trivia - 'SJS format'

[Goughy]

Some may know this straight away and maybe it is not the best question for this format but I always found this question from my old Umpire exam interesting and funny.

The Striker hits a 'No-Ball' into the field of play and as it nears the boundary, a player who is waiting for permission to return to the field, races onto the ground and fields the ball, thus saving a boundary 4 from being scored. He then throws the ball in hard to the wicket keeper who misses it. The ball runs over the boundary on the opposite side of the ground. At the instant the player fielded the ball, the batsmen had crossed on their third run.

a) How many runs in total are scored?

b) What reasoning did you use to calculate this?

c) How are they entered in the Scoring Record?

 

[Jamee999]

A) 13 runs

B) No Ball - 1 run
Overthrows - 4 runs
Runs - 3 runs
Penalty Runs - 5 runs

C) Dunno

 

[Goughy]

A) 13 runs

B) No Ball - 1 run
Overthrows - 4 runs
Runs - 3 runs
Penalty Runs - 5 runs

C) Dunno

Answer 1) 0 correct

 

[silentstriker]

The Striker hits a 'No-Ball' into the field of play and as it nears the boundary, a player who is waiting for permission to return to the field, races onto the ground and fields the ball, thus saving a boundary 4 from being scored. He then throws the ball in hard to the wicket keeper who misses it. The ball runs over the boundary on the opposite side of the ground. At the instant the player fielded the ball, the batsmen had crossed on their third run.

a) How many runs in total are scored?

b) What reasoning did you use to calculate this?

c) How are they entered in the Scoring Record?

A) 8
B) 5 penalty runs + 3 they've run The ball is dead when the illegal fielder touches the ball, right?

 

[Goughy]

A) 8
B) 5 penalty runs + 3 they've run

Answer 2) 0 correct

 

[silentstriker]

Sorry, check updated answer please . Forgot the no ball.

 

[silentstriker]

A) 9 runs
B) 5 run penalty + 1 no ball + 3 they've run. The ball is dead when the fielder touches it.

 

[Goughy]

A) 9 runs
B) 5 run penalty + 1 no ball + 3 they've run. The ball is dead when the fielder touches it.

Ill take b) to also be the approx answer to c)

Correct.

Not the hardest question, just a bizzare scenario.

Here is the official answer.

a) 9 runs are scored.

b) The automatic 1 run penalty for the 'No Ball' plus 5 penalty runs for the
player returning to the field without permission plus the 2 completed runs plus
the run in progress (because the batsmen had crossed at the time the fielder
touched the ball). The ball is automatically 'Dead' immediately the fielder
touches it, so anything which happens after that does not count.

c) 1 (no-ball) + 3 (runs credited to the Striker) + 5 penalty runs. (NB: Scorers
enter these under the three separate columns in the new Scoring Records).

 

[silentstriker]

Question:

1989 - Australia vs. Pakistan - what is a notable item regarding that series?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Is it connected to the series result?

 

[silentstriker]

Q1: No.

 

[archie mac]

Is it bowling related?

 

[silentstriker]

Q2: Yes.

 

[silentstriker]

LOL, I feel like an idiot. The trivia is wrong (i.e what I thought was true about the test, isn't). Nevermind

 

[BoyBrumby]

So is the question still live or are you asking another?

 

[silentstriker]

Nah, someone else ask. I can't think of a good one.

 

[tadeusz]

I'll have a crack.
Tich Freeman is the only player to do what?

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Take 300 wickets in an English season?

 

[tadeusz]

I was looking for the only man to take 10 wickets in a first-class innings 3 times, but that's right as well. Your shot.

 

[SJS]

Since this too has gone to sleep let me try to wake it up

My uncle said of me "When he a boy, I soak de bat and he drink de oil' Thereafter, it seems, a life as a cricketer was inevitable.

Who am I ?