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Eh, it's hardly all that complicated.
Yeah, it's based on the judgement of the umpire. If the umpire believes that the ball hit the batter's pads and would've gone on to hit the stumps then the batter is given out.
That's it. It's a one-line definition: if the umpire believes that the ball would have hit the wicket, and that the batsman stopped it from hitting the wicket with his leg, the batsman is out. Hardly difficult to comprehend. The rest of the minutiae are about *how* the umpire determines that the ball would have indeed gone on to hit the wicket had the batsman not stopped it. I would venture to say that a lot of cricket watchers don't know much about those details. You don't need to know them to watch a match and understand when a LBW is called.
Comment by NorthcoteTrevelyan at 05/07/2024 at 16:19 UTC
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Not true. If the ball is without doubt, hitting middle stump, but has pitched outside leg, or hit outside the line of off whilst the batsman is playing a shot, then it is not out.