Question

(i) State any three duties of the Main Umpire in a cricket match. 

(ii) Write any three fielding positions of “offside”. 

(iii) Explain the term ‘Full-toss’ in Cricket.

Answer 1

(i) They’ are the officials in ground responsible for administrating and imposing the rules and regulations of the game. 

Duties of Umpires: 

• Umpire signals and declares the batsmen out 

• Short-run 

• End of over . 

• Boundary: beginning 

• End of power play : no ball : wide ball ; leg bye. bye :time-out. time-over; 

obstruction: break. 

(ii) 1. Slips 

2. Cover 

3. Long off 

4. Point 

5. Mid off 

(iii) Full-toss : A ball delivered by bowler pitched right up to the batsman.