Talk:obstructing the field

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obstructing the field

Move to obstruct the field. This is not an adjective either. Second opinions? —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 18:43, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Citations would help, I suppose it's a specific rule in cricket, I actually just thought it was called obstruction. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:37, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

A lot of the cricket dismissals are difficult to parse. The rule is called "Obstructing the field", but in a sentence it can be rearranged in several ways:

• A while ago he was given out "obstructing the field", an incident that has an air of alienating weirdness about it. [1]
• Law 37 states that a batsman will be given out obstructing the field if they wilfully obstruct the opposition by word or action, and this is what the umpires adjudged the veteran Surrey batsman to have done during the match at the historic Festival. [2]
• Surrey beat Gloucestershire by two wickets despite Mark Ramprakash being given out for obstructing the field on the final day at Cheltenham. [3]
• Michael Clarke, the stand-in Australia captain whose form goes from bad to worse, asked umpire Marais Erasmus whether Trott had obstructed the field after he became tangled with Brett Lee on 30. [4]
• A batsman who has a runner but who is not himself the striker will stand behind the striker’s end umpire and become involved only if he handles the ball, obstructs the field or commits any other unfair act. [5]

So it seems that sometimes it is a fixed term obstructing the field, sometimes it is inflected as the verb obstruct the field. The same variation occurs with other methods of dismissal (handled the ball, hit the ball twice etc.) as well as other terms like carry the bat (which often appears as "[he] carried his bat"). The definitions for all those seem confused as to what POS they are. 81.142.107.230 11:41, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

obstructing

What does obstructing mean if you get chartered by the state police? Renee1984 (talk) 02:48, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

First of all, you might look at the definitions at obstruct, but I doubt we would have anything specific to your case. That said, helping you would probably constitute giving legal advice, which we're not allowed to do. Besides, we don't know any of your circumstances (not even what part of the planet you're on), and it would be a very bad idea for you to share your personal information in such a public place. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:04, 17 September 2018 (UTC)