break the wicket

This is difficult, and the yorker can often squeeze through the gap and break the wicket.

Altham pointed out, as evidence, that the fielder had to have the ball in his hand when breaking the wicket.

He broke the wicket on the backhand, but the nifty Miandad was back in safe territory by then.

The wicket-keeper must either have the ball in his glove or hand, or break the wicket by throwing the ball into the stumps.

no run outs were allowed unless the fielder had the ball in his hand when breaking the wicket.

A teammate broke the wicket and the umpire upheld the appeal, but Woodfull called Fingleton back.

While I was batting Franklin took an offside ball to which I offered no stroke and broke the wicket.

In other words, he broke the wicket at the non-striker's end during his run-up while the batsman at that end was out of his ground.

This law does not apply if he avoided a ball thrown back to the wicket by a fielder, or broke the wicket in avoiding a run out.

As he comes back for the third run, the fielder, Viv Richards, throws the ball back to the bowler's stumps where it breaks the wicket.

After these incidents, the MCC clarified that whole bat must break the wicket for the batsman to be given out "hit wicket".

It was taken by MS Dhoni who then gave it to the short-leg fielder, Abhinav Mukund, who broke the wicket.

However, effective 1 October 2010, this law has been changed to allow a batsman to be dismissed "hit wicket" if a splinter, or part of his bat, breaks the wicket.

A 2010 amendment to the Laws clarified the rare circumstance where a bat breaks during the course of a shot and the detached debris breaks the wicket; the wicket has been put down in this circumstance.

Note that since the ball itself can legally put down the wicket, a stumping is still valid even if the ball merely rebounds from the 'keeper and breaks the wicket, even though never controlled by him.

Inswingers have their place too, especially combined with the yorker as the inswinger can catch the inside edge and break the wicket, or hit the batter on the pad rather than the bat, resulting in a possible LBW decision.

Jordon appealed and Prasanna eventually walked but Chappell believed the ball had missed Prasanna's stumps and rebounded off Jordon's pads to break the wicket - and that Jordon knew this.

ST. LEONARD'S HALL Helen, thy bowling is to me Like that wise Alfred Shaw's of yore, Which gently broke the wickets three: From Alfred few could smack a four: Most difficult to score!

Drake was 'run out' on 59 when he hit the ball to the fence and Umpire Clare signalled a boundary, but Ray Illingworth picked it up a foot inside and threw it to Murray, who broke the wicket and Umpire Miller gave him out.

Running is a calculated risk because if a fielder breaks the wicket with the ball while the nearest batsman is out of his ground (i.e., he does not have part of his body or bat in contact with the ground behind the popping crease), the batsman is run out.