Talk:Extra (cricket)
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)