Talk:Extra (cricket)

Byes may be scored from ... wides
REALLY??? HOW??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.119.28 (talk) 18:06, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

No Balls and Wides counted against bowler?
No balls and wides were not originally including in the bowler's score. When was this changed?

Tabletop 05:41, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

In Test cricket, starting from 1983. Different countries adopted it in different seasons. Tintin (talk) 11:09, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Why five runs?
The claim here that a penalty is five runs because "while four runs and six runs are common scores, five runs is rather rare" doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Is there a reference for this? 213.249.235.86 14:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, it sounds very unconvincing. Couldn't find that explanation in the laws or online sources. I'll wait for a day or two and then remove it unless someone finds a citation by then. Tintin (talk) 14:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Removed it for now, until someone can find a citation for it. Tintin (talk) 16:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Overthrow
Should overthrows be mentioned on this page? Tad Lincoln (talk) 07:58, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * No, an overthrow, even if deliberate, is not a penalty, and an overthrow is not an extra at all unless the batsmen are running for wide, bye or leg bye extras at the time: it is just part of live play in which a mistake by the fielders allows the batsmen to keep running or benefit from a boundary. The word "overthrow" only occurs in Law 19.8 which deals with the fact that when an overthrow reaches the boundary, all completed runs, and that in progress if the batsmen have crossed, count in addition to the boundary allowance Atconsul (talk) 16:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Penalty Runs
Having just added enough detail here to itemise penalties under Law 41 (Unfair play) and cover the additions of penalty runs in the new Law 42 (Player Conduct) I sense this article is now rather unbalanced, and that penalty runs are now such a major - but rarely occurring - subspecies of Extras that this page should just mention them and reference a Penalty Runs page. It all depends what role the Extra page plays in the scheme of things: what is it for? If it is primarily an exposition of how the score is built up, it doesn't need to bother its audience with this stuff. Does anyone else have a view? Atconsul (talk) 17:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)