Chak De India
As India, which is virtually another World in itself, celebrates the success parade as an outcome of the victory of the Indian cricket team in the Twenty20 world cup with great pomp and show, I have some tickling doubts for some of these IIT-JEE entrance type questions on cricket, for which I am searching for answers from my child, many a plenty answers that I have been getting did not satiate me. The questioner ...
1) Suppose a player stumbles at the crease, in an attempt to play a ball, and by the time he falls on to the stumps and bails are dislodged, the ball crosses the boundary, is he out or not out as the ball is dead once it crosses the boundary?
2) Suppose that a team makes 200 in its innings, and in the second innings the other team is on 200/9 for 49.5 and the batman is stumped of a wide ball, is the later team the winner? or is it a tie ? ( I know most of us would say team batting second is the winner, now say the answer for this 8-) by how many runs or wickets ? )
3)If ball lands exactly on the rope, according to the rule, what should it be considered, a boundary or a six ? ( from my experience of watching and playing cricket my whole life, I always saw that its declared a six, but I recently read the rules and was stunned - read your selfs - Law 19 says the ball must pitch 'beyond the boundary' for it to be regarded as a six)
4) The other most confusing rule in cricket which has made many teams loose a match is the Duckworth-Lewis method ( a mathematical formula) to work out results in the rain-affected one-day matches. Every one knows that its a conspicuous blunder to declare a team which can easily win the match by taking the "resources at hand" equation in to account which assumes the opener batsman as a equivalent to the no 11 batsman. Well guys ! as you scratch your heads for the answers to these questions, I too savor Team India's victory. Adios Amigos.
1) Suppose a player stumbles at the crease, in an attempt to play a ball, and by the time he falls on to the stumps and bails are dislodged, the ball crosses the boundary, is he out or not out as the ball is dead once it crosses the boundary?
2) Suppose that a team makes 200 in its innings, and in the second innings the other team is on 200/9 for 49.5 and the batman is stumped of a wide ball, is the later team the winner? or is it a tie ? ( I know most of us would say team batting second is the winner, now say the answer for this 8-) by how many runs or wickets ? )
3)If ball lands exactly on the rope, according to the rule, what should it be considered, a boundary or a six ? ( from my experience of watching and playing cricket my whole life, I always saw that its declared a six, but I recently read the rules and was stunned - read your selfs - Law 19 says the ball must pitch 'beyond the boundary' for it to be regarded as a six)
4) The other most confusing rule in cricket which has made many teams loose a match is the Duckworth-Lewis method ( a mathematical formula) to work out results in the rain-affected one-day matches. Every one knows that its a conspicuous blunder to declare a team which can easily win the match by taking the "resources at hand" equation in to account which assumes the opener batsman as a equivalent to the no 11 batsman. Well guys ! as you scratch your heads for the answers to these questions, I too savor Team India's victory. Adios Amigos.
