In November 2014, Australian and South Australian drummer Phillip Hughes died at the age of 25 in a Sydney hospital after being hit in the side of the neck by a bouncer thrown by Sean Abbott during a Sheffield Shield match. [27] The same week, Hillel Oscar, a referee and former captain of the Israeli national cricket team, died after being hit in the neck by a bullet. [28] Sometimes, for reasons of safety, availability and cost, alternatives to a real cricket ball may be preferred. Examples include a tennis ball and a plastic version of the cricket ball. The referees are then responsible for selecting a ball from a series of prefabricated balls. You have to choose one that most resembles, the ball that was lost across the border to make it fair to the bowling team that may have worked hard to develop the brilliance or roughness of the ball. However, sometimes more bullets are used. For example, if the batsman hooks the ball well above the border and perhaps even off the ground, a new ball must of course be used to replace it. A new innovation is stumps and integrated brackets with red LEDs that flash when completely removed. They were invented by an Australian engineer and protected as “zing bails” to assist referees in exit and stumble decisions and to provide distinctive images to television coverage during day and night matches. LED stumps were first used at ICC World Twenty20 2014 and have since become commonplace in major white ball games such as ODI or T20 franchise leagues. [7] They were also used in day/night test matches.
British Standard BS 5993 specifies the construction details, dimensions, quality and performance of cricket balls. Young players often use tennis balls or an air-filled plastic “wind ball” for safety reasons before using the “hard” cricket ball from a certain age: windball cricket is also a popular sport in itself. They can also use an “IncrediBall” or an “Aeroball” while stepping between the windballs and the “hard” cricket balls. These balls are designed to mimic the feel, speed, and bounce of a normal hard ball, but become soft when they come into contact with objects at high speed, reducing the risk of injury. After taking a new ball, the referee raises his hand above his head with the ball in hand, signaling to the players and the public that the new ball has been taken. If a bowler throws both a wide ball and a non-ball, the ball without a ball is preferred to the wide ball. In such a scenario, no ball replaces the wide ball. Delivery can be considered a wide ball, not just if it is thrown far outside the stump or leg stump. It can also be a wide ball if the bowler attempts a ball to a bounder (a short delivery) and the ball bounces much higher than the batsman`s head, leaving it out of reach of a batsman. One of the differences between the white ball and the red ball is their manufacturing process. From the point of view of well-known manufacturers: white balls were introduced when one-day matches were played at night under floodlights, as they are more visible at night; All one-day professional matches are now played with white balls, even if they are not played at night. It has been found that white balls behave differently from red balls: first of all, in the first half of a round, they swing much more than red balls and deteriorate faster.
Manufacturers claim that white and red balls are made using the same methods and materials,[2] apart from dyeing leather. Another problem associated with white cricket balls used in One Day Internationals is that they get dirty or blunt quickly, making it harder for batsmen to see the ball after 30-40 overs. [8] [9] Since October 2012, this has been achieved by using two new white balls in each round, with a different ball used by each end of bowling; The same strategy was used at the 1992 and 1996 Cricket World Cups. Between October 2007 and October 2012, the problem was solved with a new ball from the beginning and then replaced at the end of the 34th inning with a “revised ball” that was neither new nor too dirty. Prior to October 2007, except at the 1992 and 1996 World Championships, only one ball was used in an ODI round, and it was at the discretion of the referees to change the ball if it was difficult to see. [10] If a ball is considered both ballless and wide, the referee will call it ballless and not wide. [2] This is because no-ball is the most serious offense of the bowling team. According to the rules of cricket, a bowling team is penalized with 1 run if they play a wide ball.
This 1 inning will be awarded to the batting team. Wide balls were relatively rare, but regulations were added in many competitions to impose a much stricter interpretation to prevent defensive bowling, and the number of wide balls increased significantly. In one-day cricket, most deliveries that go through the batter on the side of the leg without hitting the stumps are now called battering rams. In the semi-finals and final of the first World Cup in 1975, there were 79 extras, including 9 players from distance (11.4%); In the semi-finals and finals of the 2011 World Championships, there were 77 extras, including 46 distance players (59.7%). In the six tests of the 1970-71 Ashes series, there were 9 widths; in the five tests of the 2010-11 Ashes series, there were 52 widths. [3] [Original research?] The wide ball itself is not considered a legal delivery. This means that although the runs are marked by the batting team, the ball does not count as a legitimate delivery of a 6-ball. The bowler must throw 1 additional delivery for each wide ball.