Explained: The wide yorker and its growing popularity in T20 cricket

Taking the pitch out of the equation, a fast searing yorker is bowled at the base of the batter’s boots and by the time he moves his legs to save them and before the bat comes into play, the ball, on many occasions would have already crashed into the stumps. Many batters have been injured also when they failed to move their feet out of the line of the ball in time and have then of course been adjudged out LBW.

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