THE CRICKET CLINIC!!!

That's just a judgement call isn't it, based on the respective quality of each side, the pitch, confidence of each team, personality of the captain, character of the teams etc etc etc. There's no magic answer

ok, youre playing pakistan and youre australia and the pitch has a bit in it for seamers and its spinning sharply, reasonably even bounce and australia have just scored 414/5 dec to get in to this position, and you have a fast bowler who took 5 wickets in the first innings.

oh yeah darn. 414 all out

I thought I'd restart this thread seeing as though new threads were being made for every cricketing problem known to man.

Edited by fishcake14 - 18 April 2007 at 7:41pm

We're playing Broomhall!  Why, who are you playing?

You should thank me, it was my suggestion. Honestly, mate....

. I feel so much better. It really is a clinic! 

well i dnot get hit for alot but when i d it is on off side usually

yeh just wack a deep square leg in and youl only conceding one, and not four

Hi , I have just really satrted playing with a proper cricket ball...

Yeh I am padded up...but not fully im scared of it hitting me in the goolies.

Yeh lol. Iv'e never been hit there and more than likely I wont because the bat is in the way but I shuffle a lot because im a bit scared of the ball...should I not be scared?

agreed, mayb just let someone fast bowl at you, without you being allowed too move so you can get used too it :P.

Originally posted by 70_degree_spin mate, youre 14, I'm sure youve seen scarier things than a cricket ball in your life.

By definition it is not a stumping, the batsmen are attempting a run thus making it a run out within the laws.  Law 29.2 determines which batsman is considered to be out of his or her ground in the event of a run out, though does not mediate for situations where the batsmen are level and located in the exact middle of the pitch. 

29.2 (c) comes closest with:

If there is no batsman in either ground, then each ground belongs to whichever of the batsmen is nearer to it, or, if the batsmen are level, to whichever was nearer to it immediately prior to their drawing level.

As they have not technically crossed I would go with the batsman leaving his ground at the the end where the wicket was broken, that is to say the one running away from the wicket that has been put down.  This is only an interpretation, and I could see an equal case for the batsman running towards the broken wicket if any part of his person or bat is past the other batsman.