Editing Umpire (cricket) (section)

==== Wide ====
[[File:Umpire signalling a wide.jpg|thumb|200px|An umpire signals a wide in a junior cricket match.]]
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A wide is an illegal delivery, due to it being "wide of where the striker is standing or has stood at any point after the ball came into play for that delivery, and which also would have passed wide of the striker standing in a normal batting position." (Law 22).
A wide is signalled by extending both arms out horizontally and is accompanied by a call of Wide Ball.
If a delivery satisfies the criteria for both a No Ball and a Wide, the call and penalty of No Ball takes precedence.
Umpires are not to signal a wide until the ball has passed the batsman. If a batsman chooses to pursue a wide delivery, once contact with the bat takes place it cannot be called wide.