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[edit] "Ball" Definition

Why is there a definition of what happens when a "ball" is pitched in baseball? --Caverra47 09:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

• It's an extension of an article comparing cricket and baseball. Also, an earlier writer had claimed that a wide was equivalent to a wild pitch, so I corrected that mistake. Wahkeenah 14:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarity of what isn't a wide

If the bowled ball hits the batsmen's bat or person, it is NOT a wide. Some people reading the article might not realise this.

The problem is that the following sentence is not quite clear enough: A batsman may not, by definition, be out bowled, leg before wicket, caught, or hit the ball twice off a wide. He may be out handled the ball, hit wicket, obstructing the field, run out, or stumped.

In my experience there are often people saying you can't be caught off a wide (due to the above sentence). They think that they hit a wide ball and shouldn't be out caught.

From the rules of cricket it says: 2. Delivery not a Wide The umpire shall not adjudge a delivery as being a Wide (b) if the ball touches the striker's bat or person.

Rule 2b needs to be more clearly stated in the text. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.205.209.100 (talk) 11:47, 7 February 2007 (UTC).