Cricket Question

[carlton1995]

Hi All,

Just a quick question for people that know their cricket well. If a batsman faces a no-ball or wide, does that delivery get counted towards their deliveries faced?

E.g. A batsman's first delivery faced is a wide, is he still 0 off 0? or now 0 off 1? Does this change between a no-ball or wide?

Does that change if a batter scores a run off the illegal delivery?
E.g. If the batter hits his first delivery for a boundary and its a no-ball. Is he 4 off 0? Or 4 off 1?

Any links to rules or anything explaining this would also be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Art Vandelay_]

If my recollection of Gilly’s ton at the WACA is anything to go by. No for a wide

Commentators were incensed Hoggard wasn’t called for a wide and it robbed him of the record.

 

[GROTTO]

Hi All,

Just a quick question for people that know their cricket well. If a batsman faces a no-ball or wide, does that delivery get counted towards their deliveries faced?

E.g. A batsman's first delivery faced is a wide, is he still 0 off 0? or now 0 off 1? Does this change between a no-ball or wide?

Does that change if a batter scores a run off the illegal delivery?
E.g. If the batter hits his first delivery for a boundary and its a no-ball. Is he 4 off 0? Or 4 off 1?

Any links to rules or anything explaining this would also be appreciated.

Thanks!

A legal ball has yet to be bowled. So if the batsmen has scored runs of it. (like a boundary)

He is 4 runs of 0 deliveries. Only legal deliveries counts towards a batsmen balls faced.

 

[Kyptastic]

Since a wide is called because it can't be scored off, it does not count to the batsman's balls faced. However, a No Ball will, as even though it's not a legal delivery, the batsman still had the opportunity to score off it.

 

[Barlos Crathwaite]

Ok well I learned something here. The weird thing about it is we probably don't notice that the balls faced by batsmen usually exceed 300 in an odi innings for example. Funny that

 

[carlton1995]

Since a wide is called because it can't be scored off, it does not count to the batsman's balls faced. However, a No Ball will, as even though it's not a legal delivery, the batsman still had the opportunity to score off it.

Thank you for this. Did manage to find some information on this and you are indeed correct!

 

[Kyptastic]

Not the same thing, but I was listening to some back episodes of Jarrod Kimber's podcast and apparently No Balls didn't count towards the bowler until fairly recently. Apparently Bob Willis' test average of 25 would actually have been 28 if all the no balls he bowled in his career were attributed to him!