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Ask Monk.

Hurricane

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In a match - how much of a ball needs to be hitting in line for an lbw - the whole thing, half the ball, or just a piece of the ball.
 
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The ball has to "pitch in line between wicket and wicket or on the off side of the striker’s wicket". So if I understand your question, we're really only talking about being in line with leg stump here, as the law states that it needs to pitch in line between wicket and wicket, or on the off side of the striker's wicket. So, for the ball to "pitch" in line, at least half of it needs to be "in line" (between leg stump and leg stump).


However, if you've ever played lower grade or social, self umpired cricket, you know the whole LBW law is a pile of ****. Everything is either "going down leg", "pitched outside leg", or "too high", or the batsman was "too far forward"! :)
 
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Hurricane

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Monk said:
The ball has to . So if I understand your question, we're really only talking about being in line with leg stump here, as the law states that it needs to pitch in line between wicket and wicket, or on the off side of the striker's wicket. So, for the ball to "pitch" in line, at least half of it needs to be "in line" (between leg stump and leg stump).


However, if you've ever played lower grade or social, self umpired cricket, you know the whole LBW law is a pile of ****. Everything is either "going down leg", "pitched outside leg", or "too high", or the batsman was "too far forward"! :)
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I'm talking about hitting in line - not pitching in line.

So the batsman has played a forward defensive - the ball pitched outside off stump and has seamed back in and it is a marginal call whether it has struck him outside the line or not.
 
fredfertang

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Monk said:
However, if you've ever played lower grade or social, self umpired cricket, you know the whole LBW law is a pile of ****. Everything is either "going down leg", "pitched outside leg", or "too high", or the batsman was "too far forward"! :)
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Are you a bowler by any chance Monk?
 
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Dan

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Had a kid who walked on an LBW today while I was umpiring. I was in the process of giving it, but he'd already taken a few paces off to sheds.

He was the last specialist bat in a tight chase, too.
 
Howe_zat

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That's kind of nuts. If you've just missed it surely you're the last person who should say where it was going.
 
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rvd619323 said:
Had a kid who walked on an LBW today while I was umpiring. I was in the process of giving it, but he'd already taken a few paces off to sheds.

He was the last specialist bat in a tight chase, too.
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a regular ricky ponting
 
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