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***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series

andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Doesn't the ball have to clear the boundary to be six? So shouldn't that have been four?
 
Slow Love™

Slow Love™

International Captain
The commentators have been very unclear about these fours or sixes when it hits the rope.

My understanding was that it was a four the other night because it hit the ground at the same time as the rope, like a yorker. I had always thought that hitting the rope/barrier on the full (as that clearly was) was a six. Could be mistaken, but that's how I'd always understood it.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
andyc said:
Doesn't the ball have to clear the boundary to be six? So shouldn't that have been four?
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Any use?

3. Scoring a boundary
(a) A boundary shall be scored and signalled by the umpire at the bowler’s end whenever, while the ball is in play, in his opinion
(i) the ball touches the boundary, or is grounded beyond the boundary.
(ii) a fielder, with some part of his person in contact with the ball, touches the boundary or has some part of his person grounded beyond the boundary.

(b) The phrases ‘touches the boundary’ and ‘touching the boundary’ shall mean contact with
either (i) the boundary edge as defined in 2 above
or (ii) any person or obstacle within the field of play which has been designated a boundary by the umpires before the toss.

(c) The phrase ‘grounded beyond the boundary’ shall mean contact with
either (i) any part of a line or a solid object marking the boundary, except its boundary edge
or (ii) the ground outside the boundary edge
or (iii) any object in contact with the ground outside the boundary edge.

http://www.lords.org/laws-and-spirit/laws-of-cricket/laws/law-19-boundaries,45,AR.html
 
Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Great death over hitting by Symonds, Hussey and White. New Zealand's whole batting lineup needs to fire now, wouldn't be suprised if we see McCullum get promoted. I'm picking Lou Vincent to last less than 20 balls.
 
pup11

pup11

International Coach
hussey and white making it look like a "hit and giggle" game. What a canning are the kiwi's getting today hope they show some fight with the bat.
 
SirBloody Idiot

SirBloody Idiot

Cricketer Of The Year
Slow Love™ said:
The commentators have been very unclear about these fours or sixes when it hits the rope.

My understanding was that it was a four the other night because it hit the ground at the same time as the rope, like a yorker. I had always thought that hitting the rope/barrier on the full (as that clearly was) was a six. Could be mistaken, but that's how I'd always understood it.
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I thought the same. If a ball hits the rope after bouncing and stays in play, it is four, so hitting it on the full would be six.
 
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