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Listed below are comments made by PortoIan between Monday, 19th January 2009 and Friday, 30th January 2009.

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Ask Bearders #185 09:23am on 30 Jan 2009 and i should point out from law 34 hit ball twice

"2. Not out Hit the ball twice if
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(ii) he wilfully strikes the ball after it has touched a fielder...."

regarding the dead ball call my reading is the dismissal comes before the dead ball call, from "part 5. Ball lawfully struck more than once - action by the umpire" ... "if for any other reason the ball becomes dead before one run is completed ... all the provisions of the Laws will apply"

surely a catch renders the ball dead, and it happened before a run was completed, so the umpire should apply the laws....a fair catch
Ask Bearders #185 09:05am on 30 Jan 2009 question 167 - Tigermilk Boy

the batsman is OUT caught

from law 32 part 3 - caught

(included in "fair catches")

(d) a fielder catches the ball after it has been lawfully struck more than once by the striker, but only if the ball has not touched the ground since first being struck.
Ask Bearders #185 5:21pm on 25 Jan 2009 question 154 - Phil O Sofa

see post 99
Ask Bearders #185 10:58am on 25 Jan 2009 question 151 - azgemac

most are fairly obvious, eg. on side, the side the batsman is on (if you imagine a line between stumps) and off side the other side

for all derviations you have asked for (except maiden) try

http://www.notout.com.au/terms.htm

maiden probably comes from the idea of a maiden aunt (or a maiden as a woman before marriage, a synonym for virgin and or unmarried), one that hasn't had any children, therefore an over that hasn't had any runs
Ask Bearders #185 10:47am on 25 Jan 2009 question 150 - Shutts 66

no, he was born in AUS and he was not of Greek parentage but Yugoslav, he did however change his name, or rather his parents did, his original surname was Durtanovich
Ask Bearders #185 3:18pm on 21 Jan 2009 question 146 - Magical Mushroom

taking only the matches they bowled together i make the figures

Warne and McGrath played 104 Tests together capturing 1001 wickets between them at an average of 23.18 in those matches, a strike rate of a wkt every 53 balls

Walsh and Ambrose took 762 victims at 22.68 in 95 tests, a strike rate of a wkt every 56 balls

i hope thats right!
Ask Bearders #185 09:39am on 21 Jan 2009 question 143 - Slow Day.....

please see post 112 and the second part of 94

(and maybe read the blog before asking?
lol aaron geordie)
Ask Bearders #185 9:36pm on 20 Jan 2009 question 136 - aaron geordie

in tests a total of 86 designated keepers have batted at 10 or 11 (not always but at least once)

of these 13 have batted there for more than 10 innings, the most being H Strudwick between 1910 and 1926 batted 10 or 11 thirty one times (from a total of 42 innings)

the most recent was TL Tsolekile for SA who batted twice at number ten (from a total of 5 test innings) in 2004

for ODIs the total is 31 keepers, but only 3 with 10 or more innings

the most recent and the keeper with the most innings is J Smits of the Netherlands who has batted at 10 or 11 eleven times out of his 32 batting innings for Holland until the present (there are a couple of other keepers who bat there now)

possibly the "most well known" ENG keeper to do so regularly was BN French in the 1980s when he batted 6 times (out of 8) in ODIs at 10 and seven times (out of 21) in tests (Taylor also did this but for a smaller fraction of his matches)
Ask Bearders #185 9:02pm on 20 Jan 2009 question 128 - PBHA Walker

3 players scoring 99 has been equaled in ONE test

in Feb 1973 PAK played ENG in a drawn 3rd test however Majid Khan (caught) and Mushtaq Mohammed (run out, ouch) both scored 99 in the PAK 1st innings, for ENGs reply Dennis Amiss then got 99 (caught) in the match nobody made 100
Ask Bearders #185 12:50pm on 19 Jan 2009 futher to the above answer in Sept 1997 3 sets of brothers, Flower, Strang and Rennie, all played a test togther for ZIM vs NZ

this, 3 sets of brothers playing in one test, might be unique....certainly 1997 was the first example...anyone know of any others?

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