Read it again. It doesn't say that he was wilfully trying to hit the ball but wilfully trying to hit it again. It's not at all similar to handball in football - that can be difficult to interpret but it's very, very obvious if a batsman has two goes at hitting the ball - there's going to be considerable gap between the two shots.
That would depend on WHERE he hit it. It's only definitely B's call if A hit it behind square.
I remember as a YOUTH I was bowling in some cricket competition or other. I bowled a slightly short, slow ball (i.e. an awful delivery) and the batsman pulled it. As he did, I was CERTAIN I heard two sounds on the willow.
As I wandered back past the umpire for my next delivery, I said to him; "You know, I think he hit it twice...". The umpire replied: "He did, if you'd appealed I would've given him out."
TRUE STORY.
So remember kids, ALWAYS APPEAL.
And aren't you allowed to hit it twice - deliberately - in defence of your stumps? For example, if you defended the ball and it bounced down and spun back towards the stumps, could you use your bat to knock it away? I had it in my head that you could, but am starting to doubt myself now.
Where you would definitely be out hit the ball twice would be if you defended it, it dropped at your feet, and you then whacked it away in an attempt to score runs.
Or - I think - if it looped up off bat and pad, and you knocked it away to stop the short leg fielder catching it. (Or would that be out obstructing the field? Oh, I don't care anyway, I've gone right off cricket over the past month or so, for some reason...)
Batsman A is on strike and Batman B is at the other end.
A hits ball and runs, B doesn't and remains in his end. A gets in and the fielding side then whip off the bails at the strikers end. Neither A nor B walks. Who does the umpire give out ?
Law 29 2. Which is a batsman’s ground
(a) If only one batsman is within a ground
(i) it is his ground
(ii) it remains his ground even if he is later joined there by the other batsman.
Batsman A is out.
Okay, next question:
Bowler bowls a fair ball and batter strikes it in to the deep, but it does not cross the boundary. Batters start running. Dog being walked around the boundary off the lead runs on to the pitch and picks up the ball in its mouth, but does not run anywhere with it - ie remains on the field of play and does not go over the boundary. The batters keep running and the dog won't release the ball.
As umpire what action do you take?
Okay, next question:
Bowler bowls a fair ball and batter strikes it in to the deep, but it does not cross the boundary. Batters start running. Dog being walked around the boundary off the lead runs on to the pitch and picks up the ball in its mouth, but does not run anywhere with it - ie remains on the field of play and does not go over the boundary. The batters keep running and the dog won't release the ball.
As umpire what action do you take?
Law 20: Lost ball. If a ball in play is lost or cannot be recovered, the fielding side can call "lost ball". The batting side keeps any penalty runs (such as no-balls and wides) and scores the higher of six runs and the number of runs actually run.
Law 20: Lost ball. If a ball in play is lost or cannot be recovered, the fielding side can call "lost ball". The batting side keeps any penalty runs (such as no-balls and wides) and scores the higher of six runs and the number of runs actually run.
Ok, next question:
Again this is a true story - probably about 15 years ago now - I was the skipper of the fielding side and we had a decent leggie bowling for us - we were playing at Slindon nr Arundel.
We'd just taken a wicket and a new batter comes to the crease - he was not the most gifted of strokemakers but his technique was to charge down the wicket to everything, but he was canny and made sure NOTHING got past him. So as the leggie ran up to bowl, this chap charged down the track, so the bowler aborted his delivery [didn't release the ball]. This happened 3 or 4 times in a row and it was clear neither batter nor bowler were going to change what they were doing.
As umpire, what should you do?
Encourage the bowler to bowl the delivery and if he doesn't then he will be thrown out the attack by the umpire.Ok, next question:
Again this is a true story - probably about 15 years ago now - I was the skipper of the fielding side and we had a decent leggie bowling for us - we were playing at Slindon nr Arundel.
We'd just taken a wicket and a new batter comes to the crease - he was not the most gifted of strokemakers but his technique was to charge down the wicket to everything, but he was canny and made sure NOTHING got past him. So as the leggie ran up to bowl, this chap charged down the track, so the bowler aborted his delivery [didn't release the ball]. This happened 3 or 4 times in a row and it was clear neither batter nor bowler were going to change what they were doing.
As umpire, what should you do?
Encourage the bowler to bowl the delivery and if he doesn't then he will be thrown out the attack by the umpire.
Here's sonething I've often wondered about Cricket, if a bowler is a spinner and he secretly decides he wants to bowl a bit of high pace bowling runs in and changes his delivery style without warning? Is this allowed? (I know it would be difficult to bowl high pace with a spinners run up but just for arguments sake)