A Rules Of Cricket Question

[Impret-Sir]

Been watching the Test match today, and was wondering, if a batsman hits the ball and manages to knock over the stumps or bales of his opposite number at the other end of the pitch, would either of them be out?

[dannyk13]

No, unless a member of the fielding side touched on its way to the wicket.

[bhg481]

Not when I used to play. Even if the other batsman is out of his crease the ball need to be touched by one of the fielding team to count as a run-out.

[bhg481]

As an extension to that once, when I was bowling, I noticed the non-striking batsman backing up the pitch early, so I took the bails off to run him out. I was told that it wasn't the done thing and, in any case, you had to change hands with the ball as it wasn't in play until you'd released it from the bowling hand.

[saintpeter48]

There are NO rules in cricket, there are cricket LAWS!

[Impret-Sir]

Thanks for all your answers, I have never exactly been a big fan of cricket, but I do watch England test matches if I can, there does seem to be a lot of complex rules, (sorry saintpeter48, I mean LAWS!), for example I have just found out what 'extras' are, and the meaning of 'the follow on'! Cant understand the meaning of all the fielding positions though!

[aelmpvw]

'silly mid on' is self explanatory

[TonyV]

I watch my local village cricket team when I can, the clubhouse has a bar which is a plus.

[dannyk13]

Impret. perhaps this will help:-
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/cricket/explanation.htm#:~:text=Cricket%20is%20a%20team%20sport,an%20afternoon%20to%20several%20days.&text=Teams%20bat%20in%20successive%20innings,to%20the%20batting%20team's%20innings.

[New Judge]

//...when I was bowling, I noticed the non-striking batsman backing up the pitch early, so I took the bails off to run him out. I was told that it wasn't the done thing...//

Yes that's correct. There's nothing to prevent you doing it but the "form" is that you warn your opposing batsman once that you will do it if he continues to back up too early.

[TonyV]

This may help to confuse you a little bit more lol. I always played longstop.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zx3ybk7/revision/2

[dannyk13]

I agree with NJ, I always followed this when I was bowling.

[bhg481]

Yes, my "sin" was back in schooldays and it was the games master who put me straight.

[jno]

yes, apparently it's terribly unfair to try Mankading a batsman who's shortening his run by a few yards

https://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12123/12091714/mankading-ravichandran-ashwin-gives-final-warning-to-ipl-batsmen

Re the OP, if the other batsman is out of his ground, and a fielder touches the ball on the way, it's out.

[Impret-Sir]

Thanks again everyone. dannyk13, I will study that when I have a weekend free! Football is so much simpler!

[TonyV]

What do you understand the offside ruling?

[lankeela]

Offside rule is easy, cricket has no rules they make them up as they go along and the scores are just random numbers pulled out of thin air to confuse people into thinking its a proper sport.

[EdmundD]

I remember seeing Tony Lock in a Test Match bowl to the batsman who returned the ball back along the pitch. Lock flicked it back to the non-strikers wicket and the bails came off. The non-striker was out of his crease and was given out.