This article is a simplified version of various scenarios of no-call in cricket. A typical question might be how many types of NO Ball are there in Cricket?. Let’s try to answer this in this article. The content covers all clauses related to Cricket NO BALL as per MCC Laws of Cricket. The rules here are arranged and described for easy understanding.
In Overall, there 24 scenarios in which an umpire can call NO ball in Cricket. CRICKET NO BALL LIST goes as below
24 Laws
- 1. Bowler changing arm without informing Umpire
- 2. Bowler changing side without informing Umpire
- 3. Bowler breaking wicket in delivering ball
- 4. Bowler throws ball before entering a delivery stride
- 5. Bowler throws ball after entering a delivery stride
- 6. Underarm bowling
- 7. Front Foot No ball
- 8. Back Foot No ball
- 9. Bowler bouncing over head
- 10. Beamer by Fast Bowler
- 11. Beamer by slow Bowler
- 12. Ball bouncing more than once.
- 13. Ball pitching wholly or partially off the pitch
- 14. Ball coming to rest in front of strikers wicket
- 15. Bowling dangerous and unfair short pitched deliveries
- 16. Wicket keeper moving any part of body in front of stumps
- 17. Wicket keeper decided to field at boundary line while keeping gloves on
- 18 Fielder encroaching on pitch.
- 19. Fielder intercepting a delivery
- 20. On side field restriction
- 21. Illegal Fielding
- 22. Power play field restrictions
- 23. One day boundary line field restrictions
- 24. T20 day boundary line field restrictions
1. Bowler changing arm without informing Umpire
2. Front Foot No ball
The MCC Law 21.5.2 states that the bowler’s front foot must land with some part of the foot whether grounded or raised and on the same side of the imaginary line joining the two middle stumps as the return crease described in 21.5.2 and behind the popping crease.
In the image, various scenarios are illustrated. Note that the thickness of the painted line does not affect the crease itself.
The crease will always be back edge of the line.
Law makes clear that It is not mandatory to have front foot landed on or between Popping and return crease. It means that Batsman can choose to bowl with front foot landed outside of return crease but his/her back foot must remain inside the return crease.
3. Back Foot No ball
MCC Law 21 explicitly states that delivery will be considered legitimate in respect of the feet, in delivery stride, if the bowler’s back foot lands “within and not touching the return crease appertaining to his stated mode of delivery.”
Interesting fact
Law 24 does not associate the front-foot with the return crease which means a delivery where the back-foot lands inside the return crease and the front foot on it completely legal. This could be very well exploited by left-arm bowlers but it would be highly difficult to get the angle from at this position.
4. Bowler breaking wicket in delivering the ball.
5. Ball bouncing over the head height of the striker
6. Beamer by Fast bowler
7. Beamer by Slow bowler
8. Ball Bounce more than once.
9. Ball pitching wholly or partially off the pitch
10. 21.8 Ball coming to rest in front of striker’s wicket
11. Bowler throws ball before entering a delivery stride
If the bowler throws the ball towards the striker’s wicket before entering the “delivery stride”, either Umpire (main or leg umpire) shall call and signal No ball. Reference is also available in Law 41.17 (Batsman stealing a run).
In this case, procedure stated in 21.3 of first and final warning, informing, action against the bowler and reporting shall not apply.
12. Throwing a ball after entering into Delivery stride
13. Bowler changes side of the wicket
14. Underarm Bowling
15. Bowling dangerous and unfair short-pitched deliveries
Fielding violations by Wicketkeeper | MCC Law 27.3
Gloves
16. Wicket keeper position
17. Using gloves other than keeping position.
If the wicket-keeper decides to field at boundary line while keeping gloves on. By doing this, he or she forfeits position as a wicketkeeper.
Fielding violations by close fielder
18. Fielding encroaching on the pitch
19. Fielder intercepting a delivery
Fielding violations
20. On side field restrictions
21. Illegal fielding
It shall be considered illegal fielding if the fielder intentionally fields or throws somethings towards a ball in play with a piece of clothing, equipment or any other object which has not accidentally fallen from the fielder’s person.
In such a situation,
– the penalty for a No ball or a Wide shall stand.
– any runs completed by the batsmen shall be credited to the batting side, together with the run in progress if the batsmen had already crossed at the instant of the offence.
– the ball shall not count as one of the over.
and Umpire shall award 5 Penalty runs to the batting side.
22. Power play Field restrictions
23. One day Field restrictions
24. T20 Play restrictions
