BEAMER_AMENDMENT_22OCT93

I've just received the official reworded amendment slip concerning Law 42.9.

The old law is replaced; now a bowler will be no-balled, cautioned etc., regardless of intent, if he bowls a beamer. The original amendment was ambiguously worded, and the new version defines the beamer as,

".. a ball that passes, or would have passed, on the full above waist height of a Batsman standing upright at the crease."

Also of interest is that EITHER umpire may call no-ball in this case. (Only other example I can think of is that either umpire may call no-ball for throwing).

Thanks to (Umpire:-) D.W.Shepherd@bradford.ac.uk on r.s.c.