As far as #2 goes, I've seen bails completely clear the stumps and land back in the groove. Not a metre off (not even 5cm off), but completely off.
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Yeah, the bail has to land somewhere. It is extremely unlikely, although not at all impossible that it would land exactly back in the same position it started.
Bolded makes the first part of the question irrelevant.*Q2: On a perfect day with no wind, is it possible for a ball to hit the stumps, send the bails say a metre in the air only for them to lodge back in their set grooves on top of the stumps, resulting in an otherwise batsman being given not out despite being clean bowled
SourceLaw 28 (The wicket is down) said:1. Wicket put down
(a) The wicket is put down if a bail is completely removed from the top of the stumps, or a stump is struck out of the ground by
(i) the ball.
[...]
(b) The disturbance of a bail, whether temporary or not, shall not constitute its complete removal from the top of the stumps, but if a bail in falling lodges between two of the stumps this shall be regarded as complete removal.
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Bolded makes the first part of the question irrelevant.*
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* My apologies if it's already been mentioned.
Bolded makes the first part of the question irrelevant.*
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* My apologies if it's already been mentioned.
My cricketing career in a nutshell.
If the ball is passing in between the stumps then your stumps are too far apart.
I umpire indoor cricket, and I've seen an instance where the off stump was clipped, the bail on the off stump popped off and rested against the inside of the off stump. The bail stayed in the groove of middle stump leaving it still on the stumps, on a strange angle.
I remember playing backyard cricket with a set of fairly cheap beach cricket stumps complete with the standard "mono-bail" that we never bothered sawing in half. Due to the vagaries of the surface and the decade old stump holes of varying height, I once cartwheeled middle stump yet the mono-bail was still sitting there, perched undisturbed on off and leg. Obviously a fist-fight ensued.
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the ball clip the stumps, causing the bail to wobble slightly, but ultimately fall back into the groove of the stump. Can't remember the game, but it's almost certainly on Youtube.
That's the closest example I can think of.
If the stumps are broken the bail can't land back on them.
If the bail/s sort of 'lodged' or 'wedged' between 2 stumps, and didnt hit the ground, would the batsman be out?
can you justify that first statement?
in answer to your question - yes...
I see why you ask. Normally the stumps are forced apart from each other, meaning the bail cannot rest back on them. But potentially it could.
Is the batsman dismissed when the stumps (and bails) are broken or when the bails are off the stumps?
I also remember a picture of a batsman being bowled with both the off and leg stumps out of the ground and the middle stump still standing.![]()
Not at all, I think it is quite possible.do you think I made it up in order to impress a bunch of bigfooty posters?
sure, it's unlikely. that's why I mentioned it. I have only ever seen it happen once. just as I have only once heard of a bowler, on a hat-trick, bowl the ball between the stumps...