Leg bye

Leg bye

In the sport of cricket, a leg bye is a run scored by the batting team when the batsman has not hit the ball with his bat, but the ball has hit the batsman's body or protective gear.

If the ball deflects off the batsman's body and needs to be gathered by a fielder, the batsmen may have the opportunity to score runs safely, and may choose to do so. The number of runs scored are scored as leg byes - they are added to the team's total, but not to the number of runs scored by either batsman, nor to the number of runs conceded by the bowler.

If the ball deflects off the batsman's body and travels all the way to the boundary, the batting team immediately scores four leg byes, similar to if the ball had been hit to the boundary for a four.

Leg byes may only be scored if the ball hit the batsman while the batsman was in the process of either:
*attempting to hit the ball with his bat, or
*attempting to evade being hit by the ball.If the batsman was attempting neither of these, and the ball hits his body, it is a dead ball and runs may not be scored. The batsmen may, however, attempt to score runs and may be run out. If they complete such a "run" when the ball is dead, the umpire will signal dead ball, the run is not scored, and the batsmen must return to their wickets as before the run attempt.

Leg byes are relatively common. A typical number of leg byes scored in a Limited Overs match is 10 or fewer, in a Test match may be 10-20. The most leg byes in a single Test innings is 35, conceded by England against South Africa in the Protea's tour of England, on 1 August 2008. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/latest_scorecard/default.stm]

Validity

In recent years, there has been a growing movement to change the Laws of Cricket to eliminate leg byes from the sport.Fact|date=April 2007 Reinstated international umpire Darrell Hair has been a particular critic of leg byes, stating that if a batsman is not skilled enough to hit a ball with his bat, he should not be allowed to score runs off it.Fact|date=April 2007

ee also

* Bye (cricket)
* Cricket terminology
* Cricket statistics


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