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RULES The rules concerning the scoring of runs are mostly contained in Law 18 of the , and may be awarded five penalty runs in certain situations. Thus, according to Law 18, a run is scored when:
Runs are added to the team score, but not the score of an individual batsman, for extras ( No Ball s, Wide s, Bye s and Leg Bye s). SHORT RUNS To score a run, each batsmen must run from the Popping Crease at one end to the Popping Crease at the other end. A run is "short" if one of the running batsmen fails to make good his ground on turning for a further run (that is, the batsman fails to complete the run by putting some part of his body or his bat on the ground behind the Popping Crease ) – in this event, the number of runs achieved is decreased by the number of "short" runs. Although a short run also shortens the next run, since the second run starts somewhat closer to the destination than it should, the second run is not regarded as "short" if it is completed. A batsman taking up his batting stance in front of his crease may also run from that point without penalty. If either Umpire considers that either or both batsmen deliberately run short, the umpire can give a warning to the batsman that this is unfair and disallow any earned runs from that delivery. If an umpire considers that any batsmen deliberately runs short again in that Innings , a 5 run penalty is conceded to the bowling side. In practice, this rule is rarely invoked. SEE ALSO |
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