A: We ask this as the last question to guests on the Emerging Cricket Podcast - there have been some interesting ones!
Anyway, here are mine - that haven't already been mentioned above:
1) If the wicket is legally broken by the fielding team, no further runs beyond those completed / in progress can be scored. i.e., why punish direct hits?
2) If the ball strikes either of the batters, no further runs beyond those completed / in progress can be scored. Takes "the spirit" out of it and no more incidences like Stokes CWC Final 2019.
3) You have to either leave from, or return to the field of play when trying to keep the ball alive for a catch / saving a boundary. i.e., you cannot jump from outside the boundary, touch the ball, and then return to the ground outside the boundary.
4) Wide/s or No Ball/s bowled to lose the game - sometimes done in NRR situations - if this happens, an automatic five-run penalty to be awarded to batting team. (
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1b0bbgy/malaysia_bowls_a_deliberate_wide_to_pip_vanuatu
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