When the over hasn’t ended? A couple of times recently I thought I heard of a new batsman coming in after a run out and the commentators saying he wasn’t on strike because the batsmen had changed ends. Can that happen, or did I misunderstand? Obviously the runs they got before the run out don’t count, so why doesn’t the man who was on strike (or his replacement, if it was the striker who got out) have to go back to the striker’s end? Perhaps I just hadn’t noticed but I don’t remember seeing this happening before - was there a special rule in the 20-20 World Cup?
I know the 2 situations are completely different but it seems particularly odd to me since you’re not allowed to swap ends when you get a boundary - I remember in the last Old Trafford Ashes test Glen McGrath being disappointed to get a 4 as it meant he had to face the next ball.
Obviously if the non striker is run out then the new batsman isn’t on strike - possibly the commentators were just being confusing / confused. I do remember noticing that the commentator made a mistake during the 20-20 when he thought the over had ended immediately after a no-ball, which would presumably not be possible.
*If a batsman is dismissed Run out, the batting side shall score the runs completed before the dismissal, together with the penalty for a No ball or a Wide, if applicable. *
Plus, if a batsman is out to a catch, and the batsmen have crossed while the ball travels from bat to the fielder’s hand, the incoming batsman will not be on strike for the next delivery, subject to the incident not taking place during the last ball of an over.
This is the main one. Whenever I was playing if someone skied it and it wasn’t the last ball of the over you’d always have to run like buggery so that you could cross and the new batsman would be off-strike.
This will be what I heard - I had no idea you could do that. It does seem unfair to me that a team that’s just arsed up gets to swap ends, but a team that’s playing well and getting a boundary isn’t allowed to.
Them’s the breaks - and it’s not necessarily a case of *playing well *if, say, you edge a streaky four and as a reward have to face the next ball. You have to manage your run-scoring against keeping (or losing) the strike; and on the other hand, if you hit one in the air then you at least get to rescue something if you can manage to complete the run before the ball is caught. The batsmen have to have “crossed” though - it’s not enough merely to have started to run, so usually a catch close-in forces the new batsman to take strike.
