#elbow height

MCC Permits the Elbow — Roundarm Bowling Halfway Legalised, 1828

Months after the inconclusive Sussex v England trial matches, the MCC amended Rule 10 of the Laws of Cricket in 1828 to permit a bowler to raise his hand level with his elbow at the moment of delivery. The change was a compromise — it stopped short of legalising shoulder-height roundarm — but it shifted the legal frontier and gave umpires implicit licence to look the other way at deliveries that crossed it.