Clipping:Batted unfair balls now live

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Date Saturday, January 17, 1874
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In hitting at unfair balls–viz., wides and “called” balls–the batsman is now open to the same results as if he were to hit a fair ball. Thus, according to the new rule, if the batsman strike at and miss a ball on which a “wide” is called, the umpire must reverse his decision of “wide” and call “one strike;” and if the batsman hit a “called” ball, a similar reversal must be made, and the ball decided fair or foul, as the case may be. This is but just; for if the batsman thinks the ball is one he can hit, it of course ceases to be “wide” or one to be called.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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