Diff. Between Private Company Officer and Govt. Officer....Read the next two posts in sequence.

Read the next two posts in sequence...

Diff. Between Private Company Officer and Govt. Officer 

Private Company Officer:

Question: How many balls are there in an over?

 Answer: 6

Full Marks

 If this was a Question to Govt. Officer - 

For Govt. Officer the answer would be WRONG and he will say - 

" Private company Officer answered the question. However, he has not understood the questions correctly. Answer points to a lack of in-depth understanding and conceptual clarity on the subject. Correct answer is 1 ball which is delivered 6 times, if the umpire(as defined under bye law 19 of Rule 2) did not declare any no ball in all those deliveries. 

In case the umpire, as defined above, declares a No Ball as defined in the Byelaws 24 Rule 3 of the Laws of Cricket (Lords), then there will be an additional ball delivered, using the same ball, for every no ball declared by the umpire. 

Note that such additional balls will not be counted towards the number of balls”.

 Similarly for a wide ball under Byelaw 25 Rule 3 of the Laws of Cricket (Lords) an additional ball will be delivered for every wide ball declared by the umpire. 

 Thus keeping in view the Rules 19, 24 25 of the Laws of Cricket(Lords) the answer is 1 ball. 

However, if the ball used for the said deliveries suffers or undergoes such transformation or such other changes which, the umpire, on an appeal being made by the bowler, deems unfit for use, the ball may be changed/replaced with another one. Only in such a case, will there be use of multiple balls in an over.

(The officers may assume that the batsmen did not hit a sixer, thereby forcing the ball to go out of the park causing another ball to be used)''

This is a corollary to the Cricket Ball controversy of GB

As is the wont in Government the matter was referred to a second Government Officer GO2 for his comments. They were as under:

The matter has been examined in detail. It is felt that the first Government Officer (hereinafter referred to as GO1) did not fully appreciate the definition of what is a ball. Rule 22 of the Laws of Cricket (2000 Co 4th Edition 2010) defines an Over as consisting of six balls. the object delivered in a ball is referred to as "The Ball" or the "Cricket Ball" .  GO1 therefore erred in confuring a "ball" with the "Cricket Ball"

By dint of Rule 22, therefore it is unequivocally stated that an over normally consists of six balls unless a ball is declared invalid under Rule 19, 24 or 25. In case of the latter the number of balls actually are increased by the number of invalid balls but such invalid balls are not counted towards the number of balls.

It is stated that the Private Company Officer was correct in his assessment.

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