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Cricket overthrow boundary: why four runs can become five or six
An overthrow boundary can add the boundary allowance to runs completed before the fielder’s throw, plus the run in progress if the batters had already crossed when that throw occurred. With the usual four-run allowance, two completed runs and a crossing already made for the third can therefore produce seven—not simply four, and not every…
Follow-on in cricket: is a 200-run lead always required?
No. Under MCC’s follow-on law, 200 runs is the minimum lead for a two-innings match scheduled for five days or more. The minimum is 150 in a three- or four-day match, 100 in a two-day match, and 75 in a one-day two-innings match. Reaching the applicable lead gives the side batting first an option; it…
Can you be stumped off a wide or no-ball? The keeper-alone exception explained
A striker can be stumped from a Wide, but not from a No ball. That does not mean every failed no-ball stumping becomes a Run out instead. Under the MCC Laws used here, a striker who is out of their ground, has not attempted a run, and has their wicket broken by the keeper without…
Cricket extras explained: why 23 team runs can mean only 16 against the bowler
Cricket extras increase the team’s score without being credited to a batter. But they do not all go into the bowler’s runs conceded. Wides and the no-ball penalty are charged to the bowler; byes and leg byes are not. That is how one completed over can add 23 to the team total while adding only…