5 Weirdest cricket rules one probably may not know
These rules have raised eyebrows in the past.
3. Appealing mandatory for a fielding team
When a fielding team reckons that a batsman is out, it erupts in vociferous appeal, requesting the umpire to give the decision in their favour. If it’s legal, then the umpire raises the finger. However, in order to get a batter dismissed, one has to mandatorily appeal.
Without the appeal, the umpire shall not give the batsman out. The laws are defined under MCC’s Law 31 of the Appeals and Dismissals. However, it won’t be debarring a batsman, who is out, from walking off the field even without an appeal.
Quite a few times, the bowler and keeper refrains from appealing for a caught-behind. But then, the replays show that the leather had indeed taken the outside edge. Even as a number of batsmen have walked even after being given not out, a few of them have managed to hold ground.
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