Cricketing Queries

[ZoraxDoom]

I think wide is counted. We don't count it in the school league because our bowlers bowl wayyy too many wides and it skews the strike rates of batsmen (), but I believe it is counted otherwise?

Would make sense if it wasn't counted though. The whole point of a wide is that it's a delivery the batsman can't feasibly play, so why count it as a missed scoring opportunity when it wasn't a scoring opportunity to begin with?

 

[Gurjot95]

I am 95% sure, wide doesn't count as ball for batsman but it count for bowler tough. There is no point wide counted for batsman when Batsman can't play that ball.

 

[pcfan123]

Wide is counted, you are mistaken

 

[sohum]

Wides are not counted as balls faced. I am 100% sure.

Balls faced are the number of balls you have an opportunity to score runs off. You can score runs off the bat off a no ball. However, you cannot score a run off a wide ball.

To verify, open up any ODI match with wides and no balls and count the total number of balls faced by all batsmen and then match that with the total balls bowled (overs + no balls).

Proof: http://www.cricinfo.com/bdeshveng2010/engine/current/match/426422.html
Balls faced by English batsmen adds up to 300 (50 overs). Notice that 6 wides were bowled and 0 no balls.

 

[pcfan123]

So do no balls count?

 

[Highlander999]

Pretty sure wide's don't count and no ball's do count

 

[sohum]

Yup, no balls count. Otherwise you'd end up with a situation where a batsman has scored runs without playing a ball. Imagine you take a single off the first ball you faced, a no ball, and then get run out the next ball. You'd be out for 1 off 0... doesn't make sense.

 

[Highlander999]

Actually you could get that in EA '05

 

[Gurjot95]

Actually you could get that in EA '05

Even in 07

My point is well explained by Sohum. Wides doesn't count and no ball does.

 

[angryangy]

It's kind of like how 4 byes doesn't count against a bowler, but 4 wides does.

 

[pcfan123]

Only makes sense. Byes are hardly the fault of the bowler.

Do leg byes count as runs against the bowler? I don't think they do, they shouldn't anyhow.

 

[TumTum]

I am pretty sure wides are counted for the batsmen.

Because everytime I watch a match live, the batsmen's 'ball faced' increases by 1.

Unless they realise their mistake and alter it at the end of the match :confused:

 

[Highlander999]

Do leg byes count as runs against the bowler? I don't think they do, they shouldn't anyhow.

They don't

 

[Dabi]

If in a T20 tournament, there is no reserve day for rain affected matches, does it count as a tie if only one innings has been bowled?

In the case that a reserve day has been allotted, is the match restarted or does it pick up from where it left off?

 

[angryangy]

Only makes sense. Byes are hardly the fault of the bowler.

By definition! However, in practice, sometimes the ball just does something weird. What kind of score it becomes is purely academic, but in either case, the ball can be understood to have missed everything and gone to the fence.