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I would argue that any ‘wide’ that is hit by a batsman is debatable. When you’re only made aware an hour after a change of innings that it was actually scored as a wide, then at what point should you alert the umpires? There was never an argument that Rosanna themselves scored any more runs...

Technically Epping’s score should have been 139 if only 6 legal deliveries were scored however the non-wide and surplus legal delivery which accounted for 2 runs pushed their total to 142. The extra legal delivery and resulting runs cannot be disputed by the laws of the game, but a clerical...

The scorers waited to see how many balls were bowled in the over, the extra ball would in theory confirm the wide. There was a 7th legal delivery bowled in the over (which ended up being a no ball and 1 off the bat) so the scorers believed that would confirm the earlier wide call. What this...

Interesting one. There was a questionable umpiring/scoring decision during the Epping innings. A ball was bowled by Shelton which was hit by the batsman. The umpire made an unusual gesture with his arms which the scorers thought was potentially indicating a wide. The scorers counted the wide and...