Youse Think Youse Know Cricket? - Answers
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Okay, here are the answers of the "Youse Think Youse Know Cricket?" from yesterday.
- The ball bounced in between the gap. Is it four or six runs?
- The answer - in the scenario stated in the article it would have been four runs, as the boundary is the rope in that situation.
- What if a dog runs on the field, and the ball hits the dog?
- Play continues. If it hits the dog on the full and bounces into a fielders hands, then the ball is not deemed to have hit the ground. The correct decision therefore in that scenario, is that the batsman is out.
- What if a spectator runs on the field, and the ball hits the spectator?
- You'd think the same logic would apply, but actually it doesn't! The spectator becomes the boundary, and if the ball hits him it is an automatic four runs (even if it hits him on the full). I don't know why there is a discrepancy for dogs and spectators.
- What happens if the ball hits the tree?
- It is four runs. Even if it hit the top branch of the tree, where on a normal ground it would go for six, it would be still counted as only four runs. The bigger question to be asked, of course, is why is there a tree in the cricket gound in the first place!? Nobody puts a tree in Right Field in baseball...
