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Rh pitch straight, and if so he has a perfect right, if he thinks fit, to tell his own friends what his opinion is; but as a rule the umpire's judgment is right and the batsman's is wrong. The

mere fact of a ball hitting the leg when it is pitched so nearly straight and would have so nearly hit the wicket as to justify an appeal to the umpire, shows that the batsman has seriously erred either in his judgment of the pitch of the ball or in his