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What is a obstructing the field in cricket?

Baseball translation: interference, called on the batter

A dismissal: the batter deliberately blocks or impedes fielders — swatting the ball away from a catch, blocking a throw, or changing course to shield the stumps. Rare and dramatic. (It absorbed the old 'handled the ball' law in 2017.)

Related: off the seam on the stumps outside edge outside off

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