Anecdotes – Round 11 (1-Dayer)

Anatomy of a season….so far

At the end of every season, most Teams will look back and say ‘what might have been’? The C4 Reds (Ross S) are currently in 7th spot and just 4 points out of the top 4 but they already have experienced a season to remember. How about this for a season – so far, direct from the Skipper:

“Of 11 rounds.

  • 2 x ties against the same Team with the same batter on strike
  • 2 x byes
  • 1 x weather rain out and;
  • 3 x close losses:
  • Round 3 defending 191, the Opposition 8/122 rain comes. A 70 run partnership 9/192. Loss
  • Round 6 defending 174, the Opposition 8/177 losing with 4 balls left
  • Round 7 defending 151, the Opposition 4/154 losing with 1 over left”

Despite all these results the Reds are still just 1 win out of the top 4!

Photo: Ross Smith (Red) & Agniva Chakraborty (White) in C4 Grade – Sheep Station Trophy @ Campbell Park – 26 October 2024

31 years ago

When our Club was formed way back in 1930, we were the ‘West Pennant Hills Cricket Club’ and retained this name for 63 years.

On the 5th July 1993 we changed our name to the ‘West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club’ (anything to add another ‘C’ into our abbreviated name), to recognise the important role that Cherrybrook has in our community. In November 1993 we were incorporated and our new name was legally locked in and protected from others using it.

Imagine if we changed our name again to the West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Community Cricket Club we would be WPHCCCC – just joking on this suggestion.

So… a belated happy 31st birthday to our Club name.

Our new website

As an early ‘heads-up’, later this week we will go live with our new website. More on this later but this will have a lot of new content, is built using the latest technology that is also fully integrated with Social Media so will be pretty exciting.

Before 1998 there was no Club website and communication was pretty much just by emails and lots of attachments. In November 1998, all this changed when we launched our Club website (www.jamark.com.au/wphccc). It was developed by Mark Harrison, the son of Peter Harrison, a long-term West Penno player.

In 2002, Peter W Lees then redeveloped and maintained the site (www.wphccc.org ) to a new level until our current site was launched on Tuesday 13 December 2016 (www.wphccc.com.au).

So later this week we will have our 4th generation website using the same URL but with full social media generation and intuitive design.

Stay tuned.

 

What would your Decision be?

Question 1

The striker hits the ball toward the deep mid-wicket boundary and runs. In turning for a further run, the striker is a metre short of her ground at the bowler’s end, and you believe this to be a deliberate action. The batters continue running, going on to complete their second, when a fielder misfields, deflecting the ball into the boundary. What action shall be taken by the bowler’s end umpire?

Question 2

A delivery, called No ball, is missed by the striker. The ball contacts the striker’s pad as he attempts to play the ball with his bat. The ball evades the wicket-keeper and runs all the way to the fine leg boundary. Questions:

  1. a) How many runs are scored?
  2. b) What signals are given by the umpire and in which order?
  3. c) How are the runs recorded?

Question 3

During a limited-overs match, the bowler delivers a ball down the leg side which is called Wide by the bowler’s end umpire. In receiving the ball, the wicket-keeper encroaches and takes it in front of the wicket before attempting to stump the striker who has dragged his back foot and is out of his ground as the wicket is broken. a) What is the decision and/or action of the striker’s end umpire?

Photo: Rob Hanich receiving 4th Grade T20 Trophy from Umpires Simon Moore & James Fernandez @ Les Shore 1 – 30th October 2022.

What would your Decision be? The Answers

Question 1

The bowler’s end umpire shall call and signal Short run when the ball contacts the boundary. The boundary allowance, along with the two completed runs are disallowed and the batters will remain at their original ends. 5 Penalty runs are awarded to the side fielding. Inform the captain of the fielding side, the batters at the crease and the captain of the side batting when applicable of the reason for this action. The umpires together shall report the occurrence to the Executive of the fielding side and the Governing Body responsible for the match.

Law 18.5 Tom Smith’s – Deliberate short running Deliberate short running is unfair, and could occur at any time but it is more likely towards the end of an innings, when it could be important to the batting side both to score runs and for a particular batter to keep the strike.

The dishonest practice of deliberately running short leads not only to all runs from that ball being disallowed and the return of the batters to their original ends, but also to a 5-run Penalty and report to the Governing Body for the match.

This is deliberate cheating so, unlike with accidental short running, the penalty applies even if the ball goes to the boundary. If the deliberate short run was from a No ball or Wide then the one run penalty for this will be awarded, as will any other Penalty runs applicable except for the ball hitting the unworn helmet placed on the ground behind the wicket-keeper by the fielding side.

Question 2

  1. a) How many runs are scored? 5 runs
  2. b) What signals are given by the umpire and in which order? The umpire shall signal No ball, Leg bye, Boundary 4, each requiring a separate acknowledgement from the scorers.
  3. c) How are the runs recorded? The runs are recorded as one (1) No ball and four (4) Leg bye extras. Laws 2.13.2, 21.16 and 23.2

Question 3

  1. a) Striker’s end umpire shall call and signal No ball and answer the appeal, Not out. Law 27.3
  2. b) What is required of the bowler’s end umpire? The bowler’s end umpire shall revoke the Wide and then signal No ball to the scorers. Law 21.13 Tom Smith’s – No ball to over-ride Wide If a ball meets the conditions for both a No ball and a Wide, the call of No ball is to stand – it cannot be both a Wide and a No ball. This is simply because a No ball offers a batter greater protection, and allows the striker to hit the ball while still being protected from most forms of dismissal.

 

 

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