Simon Hughes
A red graphics strip is superimposed between the stumps to show where the ball pitched, and on which line the ball was travelling when it struck the batsman. The Red Zone is now familiar to TV audiences as part of the Hawk-Eye LBW package.
The three examples below illustrate how the Red Zone helps us to guage which parts of the LBW law need to be considered if the batsman is struck on the pads in front of, or close to, the wicket.
The first picture shows a right-handed batsman receiving a ball which pitches outside the line (wicket to wicket) of the leg stump. If this happens he cannot be given out.
In the second picture we see a batsman struck on the pad outside the line of the off stmup; because he is making a genuine attempt to play the ball then, in the opnion of the umpire, he cannot be given out.
In the third picture, however, there is no escape; if, in the umpire's opinion, the batsman is notmaking a genuine attempt to play the ball when struck outside the line of the off stump and the ball would have gone on the hit the stumps, then the batsman is out.
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