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I thought, too, that it is illogical that a ground stroke behind the diamond should be a no-ball, and yet, should that ball be in the air and caught, the striker should be out. I thought it an odd example of lenience to allow the batsman as many strokes behind the catcher as he chanced to make.
Foster and Henderson began the batting, and my first ball which was supposed to be directed at Foster's wicket was a most abominable wide, the second and third he hit to the boundary, the fourth was a no-ball, and I really forget what happened after that, but I know that it was the sort of over which seemed as if it would never end.
"Resume your play," commanded Pennybet. "It was Not Out." "Why?" loudly demanded the bowler. Penny seized the only escape from his sensational error. "Because, you horrid little tuberculous maggot, it was a no-ball. Besides, you smell." The little boy looked defiantly at him, and, pointing to me, said: "Bowler's umpire didn't give 'no-ball." "Then," said Penny promptly, "he ought to have done."
"I don't think so," he said slowly. The Hon. Geoffrey returned to his duties. "We got poor old Barter for a 'blob'!" he said over his shoulder. The Squire became aware that Mr. Barter was approaching from behind. "You see that left-hand fellow?" he said, pouting. "Just watch his foot. D'you mean to say that wasn't a no-ball? He bowled me with a no-ball. He's a rank no-batter.
And when Ellerby not only survived the destructive de Freece's second over, but actually lifted a loose ball on to the roof of the scoring-hut, the cloud began perceptibly to lift. A no-ball in the same over sent up the first ten. Ten for two was not good; but it was considerably better than one for two. With the score at thirty, Ellerby was missed in the slips off de Freece.
Off the second ball of the other man's over Mike scored his first boundary. It was a long-hop on the off. He banged it behind point to the terrace-bank. The last ball of the over, a half-volley to leg, he lifted over the other boundary. "Sixty up," said Ellerby, in the pavilion, as the umpire signalled another no-ball. "By George! I believe these chaps are going to knock off the runs.
He had prayed that I should miss the catch, and as I think I have already told you, it is considered unfair in the Gardens to pray for victory. My splendid David! He has the faults of other little boys, but he has a noble sense of fairness. "We shall call it a no-ball, David," I said gravely.
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