2014 Pre-Season

Laws of and Association Playing Conditions

Umpire Workbook – Week 3

In all cases the following questions must be answered with consideration given to the following:

Grade = The grade in which you or your panel usually umpires LOC = BLPC = By Laws & Playing Conditions

These references must be completed (where possible) for each question.

The striker hits the ball firmly and it bounces up from your colleague’s shoulder without first touching the ground, before being by a fielder. How do you answer the side’s appeal?

 Not Out – Play continues

 Not Out - Call and signal “Dead Ball”

 Out - Caught

 Call and Signal “Dead Ball” and consult with your colleague.

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While attempting to play a short pitched delivery, the striker deliberately takes one hand off the bat and pushes the ball away with this hand to avoid injury. On appeal what is your decision?

 Out – “”.

 Not Out.

 Out – “Obstructing the Field”.

 Out – “Handled the Ball” and 5 Penalty Runs to the fielding side.

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You are convinced that the Fielding side is wasting time and that the Fielding Captain is allowing this to take place. What would your actions be in this situation if it is the first instance of this occurring in the innings?

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The striker is out on the third ball of an over. There is an appreciable time before the new batsman approaches the pitch. As he walks towards the pitch, the fielding captain appeals.

 In order to answer the appeal, what should you check with the other ?

 Explain how you would answer the appeal according to the result of this checking with the other umpire.

 If the answer is Not out and the batsman continues to the , in what circumstances would a further appeal be answered ‘Out - ’?

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The striker plays forward to a “No Ball”, makes no contact and before he makes good his ground the wicket-keeper removes the bails (correctly) and appeals. The batsman makes no attempt to run. What is your decision and why?

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The ball is legitimately hit twice. Without interference by a fielder the batsmen start to run. What action should the umpire take?

Grade_____ LOC Reference____ BLPC Reference_____ The striker hits a fair delivery and both batters complete two runs and turn for a third. On commencing the third, the non-striker’s path is deliberately obstructed by the bowler causing the batters to stop running and return to their creases. What action, if any, should the umpire take and how many runs are allowed?

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When is the wicket-keeper allowed to take the ball in front of the striker’s wicket without penalty?

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You are at the striker’s end. The wicket-keeper is standing close to the wicket. A delivery passes the striker without any contact with him. The wicket-keeper moves his hands to take the ball after it has passed the wicket. As it nears the wicket-keeper’s gloves, the striker makes a very late shot and hits the ball away from the wicket-keeper’s hands. There is an appeal. Do you give the striker out Obstructing the field? Why, or why not, as the case may be?

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The bowler stops in his run up, just before entering his delivery stride, and throws the ball at the non-striker’s wicket. The non-striker is out of his ground but the ball misses the stumps. What action are you required to take?

Grade_____ LOC Reference____ BLPC Reference_____ As the bowler turns at the end of his follow through, you consider that he has dug his heel into the pitch unnecessarily sharply causing avoidable damage. When the ball is dead you see that he has made a significant scar, about 6 inches long, in line with the striker’s off stump and some 10 feet in front of the wicket (6 feet in front of the popping crease) at the bowler’s end. State in full the action which you would take.

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In what ways may the striker be out from a No ball? Which of these are credited to the bowler?

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In what ways may the striker be out from a Wide? Which of these are credited to the bowler?

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Write in the missing words for the statement below related to “The wicket is down”

The wicket is put down if a bail is ______or a stump is ______

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You and your colleague have agreed to play without bails. Which of these events would mean that, in these circumstances, the wicket has been put down?

 A ball strikes one of the stumps but does not disturb it.

 The striker knocks the wicket with his bat in making his back lift. A stump is pushed askew but not removed from the ground.

 One stump is already askew from a previous attempt. A fielder holding the ball in his hand uses that hand to knock this particular stump further out of the vertical. Grade_____ LOC Reference____ BLPC Reference_____

The striker is hit on the pad in circumstances which satisfy you that he is out LBW. The bowler appeals as the ball ricochets off the striker’s pad, hits his glove and is caught by second slip. You give the striker out. How is he out?

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The striker hits the ball firmly and it bounces up from your colleague’s shoulder without first touching the ground, before being caught by a fielder.

How do you answer the fielding side’s appeal – and why?

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A delivery hits the striker’s front pad which is just outside the line of the off stump. You are quite certain that the ball would have gone on to hit the wicket. Give reasons why, nevertheless, you might consider that the striker was not out LBW.

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A batsman running alongside the pitch bumps into a fielder who is about to pick up the ball. The fielding side appeals. What should the umpire take into consideration before answering the appeal?

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In each case state whether, if there is an appeal, you (the umpire at the striker’s end) would answer the appeal:

• Not out

• Out

• Out Run out.

The striker, after receiving a ball which is not a No ball, is standing out of his ground, clearly not attempting a run, when the wicket is put down by the ball…

 rebounding from the wicket-keeper’s pads

 having been thrown by the wicket-keeper on to the stumps

 rebounding from the wicket-keeper’s helmet

 rebounding from the wicket-keeper’s helmet on to the ground and thence on to the stumps

 flying off the wicket-keeper’s helmet to first slip who then throws the ball on to the wicket. Grade_____ LOC Reference____ BLPC Reference_____

The batsmen attempt a run but there is a mix-up and the wicket is put down at your end with both batsmen standing in mid-pitch. How do you decide which of them is out?

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A fielder dives to try to field the ball. As he does so his cap falls off and the ball touches it. Is the fielder guilty of illegal fielding? Why, or why not, as the case may be?

Grade_____ LOC Reference____ BLPC Reference_____ In the following diagrams, the shading in each diagram represents the suggested area which the bowler must avoid after delivering the ball.

Tick ( ) the box next to the diagram which is in accordance with the Laws of Cricket.

PROTECTED AREA

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