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Originally Posted by Vepu
I would love to see where it says 3 bounces counted as a dead ball. As long as the batsman had an opportunity to play it should be a legal ball.
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If you buy the MCC rule book, you'll see it there.
Actually, if the ball stops after the bowler releases it, it's still a legal delivery (so long as it doesn't bounce more than twice) and the batsman can hit it if he wants to. I remember one of India's spinners (Bhajji probably) delivered a ball that slipped out of hand and landed on short mod on. It didn't bounce. every-one thought it was a dead ball but McMillan was the batsman and he said hang-on, I can hit this. He did a golf swing to long on to collect a couple and it was still the most bizarre 2 runs I have seen.