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Origins of the Wide Ball Law — From Daddy White to MCC, 1809-1811
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1811-05-13
Until 1811 there was no formal law against bowling wide. The MCC's revisions to the Laws of Cricket in 1809 began the move toward outlawing the wide ball, and the formal rule arrived in 1811 — partly in response to the practice (going back to 1771's Daddy White) of batsmen using disproportionately wide bats, partly in response to bowlers like William Lambert who had openly bowled wides to defeat opponents in single-wicket challenges.
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