I'm not a cricket tragic but this is from a suburban game in Melbourne over the weekend ... Took out the middle stump but left the bails in place ... Americans, we will resume normal broadcasting again :)
Law 28 of the Marylebone Cricket Club's Laws of Cricket dictates, "the disturbance of a bail, whether temporary or not, shall not constitute its complete removal from the top of the stumps", meaning just because the bails had moved, it doesn't necessarily mean it's out.
The MCC-produced Tom Smith's Cricket Umpiring and Scoring spells goes into more detail; if both bails remain "on top" of the stumps, or if any part of a displaced bail is above unbroken stumps, the stumps are not deemed to be 'down'.
In this case, both bails were on top of stumps, right? The bails weren't "displaced", and they were both technically above "unbroken stumps", weren't they?
Sure, but keen cricket followers would of course know the first part of Law 28 also states that a wicket is considered down if a stump is "struck out of the ground". 馃榾馃榾馃榾
@ozgirl512: She definitely was ahead of her time, the first sassy platinum blonde to become a superstar. Hmmm...I seem to remember others named Marilyn and Madonna???
Is cricket the world's most beloved and most complicated sport? We Muricans can't get our heads wrapped around it. After all, look who's our President. XD
@Shutterbug: article in the paper quoted a rule about a stump being dislodged from the ground with no qualifier about the bails .. I'm certainly no expert .. but it can be fun to get down to the level of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin detail :)