Unknown Laws of Cricket

Cricket is a game of entrtainment and fun , but it is bounded by some rules and laws. In fact, ther is a law book framed by Marylborne Cricket Club (MCC). The book states that there are 42 laws in cricket which grouped under various categories . Even the most knowledgeable of the cricket fans don't know it all.
Here are 5 unknown laws of cricket

• LOST BALL     

       It looks like childish street rule, but the same is mentioned in the rule book of cricket under law20 . This law state that

         'if during paly the ball is lost or is unable to recovered, the feilding side can call a"Lost Ball". The batting side keeps any penalty runs and scores the higher of six runs and the number of  runs actually run.'

• HANDLING THE BALL

     Many people are familier with this law . It States that

    'if a batsman wilfully handles the ball with hand that is not touching the bat without the consent of .\   opposition,he is out.' 

This stated under the law 33 of law book.

•      FORFEITURE

There is a provision in the Law 14 which vividly explains of the fact that a batting captain can forfeit the entireinnings without batting a single delivery. Literally, this did happen in international Cricket. In a test match between South Africa and England in January, 2000, South Africa were poised at around 155 for the loss of 6 wickets in the first day when rain sneaked in. South Africa had already won the series 2-0 and it was the thirdtest of the series. Rain washed out the entire of the next three days of thetest and it called for an imminent draw. But, the then captain of South Africa, Hansie Cronje had something different in mind. He made a pact with the English captain, Nasser Hussain that South Africa would declare their innings after reaching around 250 and England and South Africa would forfeit one of their innings and England would have to chase it in the fourth innings. The English team agreed to it and ultimately they won the match by 2 wickets, chasing 251 runs after forfeiting their first innings which was followed by the forfeiture of the second innings of South Africa.

• MANKADING

Well, this is a kind of dismissal, quite unheard of. Before getting onto the naming justification for this dismissal,let us conceptualize about it. Suppose, if a bowler while in the run up, just prior to bowling his delivery, sees the non-striker stepped out of the popping crease, the bowler has full rights to dislodge the bails at the non-striker’s end and the non-striker will be declared run out if he is found out of the crease. Also, even the ball wasn’t being bowled, the ball shall notbe considered as a dead ball. The name is such because of the fact thatit was Vinoo Mankad who first enforced such a dismissal while bowling. He ran out Bill Brown in 1947. The ICC does provide provisions to the bowler to induct thisdismissal while the bowler is on his delivery stride and is about to release the ball. Later, in the 90s, Kapil Dev dismissed Peter Kirsten in the similar manner after warning him for a number of times. This happens to be controversial till date.

• RESTRICTION ON INJURED FIELDER

There are a number of rules for a player while leaving the field. First of all, the player must take the permission of the umpire for leaving. If the player happens to be out of the field for a span of over 15 minutes, heshall not be allowed to bowl for the exact length of the time for which he was out. If it happens to be the case that the player, while he was off the field, the bowling of his respective team concluded, then he shall not be allowed to bat for the exact amount of time from the commencement of the innings. Things might look to be tricky.Let us make it simple by providing an example. In the third test between India and South Africa in January, 2007, Sachin Tendulkar was out of the field for eighteen minutes at the end of the first innings of South African batting. Just after the innings concluded, in the second innings of the Indian batting, the two opening batsmen were dismissed early and Sachin could not come into bat at number 4 as eighteen minutes to the Indian innings had not passed since its commencement. Sourav Ganguly came into bat at number 4.Also, there are further restrictions about this. If a player, who earlier left the field fail to inform the umpire about his return to the field, and if it happens that the fielder fields a ball, the umpire shall offer 5 penalty runs to the batting team.




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