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Are you allowed to pitch the baseball along the ground, therefore making it impossible to properly hit with the bat? It's no different in cricket really.

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No. That would be a foul. It's in the book though lol.

Yeah, that was the flaw at the time, it wasn't in the book and not thought to be needed in the book.

It was getting that way - it was in some of the books and this was the incident that lead to it being in all of the books, so to speak.

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