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having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other "wide roads" "a wide necktie" "wide margins" "three feet wide" "a river two miles broad" "broad shoulders" "a broad river" broad in scope or content "across-the-board pay increases" "an all-embracing definition" "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" "an invention with broad applications" "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner "granted him wide powers" (used of eyes) fully open or extended "stared with wide eyes" very large in expanse or scope "a broad lawn" "the wide plains" "a spacious view" "spacious skies" great in degree "won by a wide margin" having ample fabric "the current taste for wide trousers" "a full skirt" not on target "the kick was wide" "the arrow was wide of the mark" "a claim that was wide of the truth" with or by a broad space "stand with legs wide apart" "ran wide around left end" to the fullest extent possible "open your eyes wide" "with the throttle wide open" far from the intended target "the arrow went wide of the mark" "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" to or over a great extent or range far "wandered wide through many lands" "he traveled widely"
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In the sport of cricket, a wide is one of two things: The event of a cricket ballball being delivered by a bowler (cricket)bowler too wide or high to be hit by the batsman, and ruled so by the umpire (cricket)umpire. A run scored by the batting team as a penalty to the bowling team when this occurs.To be ruled a wide, the umpire at the bowler's end must judge that the batsman is unable to play a normal batting stroke at the ball from his normal batting stance. The umpire signals a wide by holding both arms out horizontally.A wide does not count as one of the six balls in an over (cricket)over, nor does it count as a ball faced by the batsman.When a wide is bowled, a number of runs are awarded to the batting team, the number varying depending on local playing conditions in force. In Test cricket the award is one run; in some domestic competitions, particularly one-day cricket competitions, the award is two runs. These runs are scored as extra (cricket)extras and are added to the team's total, but are not added to any batsman's total.A batsman may not, by definition, be out bowled, leg before wicket, or caught off a wide. He may be stumped.If the wicket-keeper fumbles or misses the ball, the batsmen may be able to take additional runs safely, and may choose to do so. The number of runs scored are scored as wides, not bye (cricket)byes.If the wicket-keeper misses the ball and it travels all the way to the boundary, the batting team immediately scores four wides, similarly to if the ball had been hit to the boundary for a four (cricket)four.If a ball qualifies as a no ball as well as a wide, the umpire will call it a no ball instead of a wide, and all the rules for a no ball apply.Wides are considered to be the fault of the bowler (cricket)bowler, and are recorded as a negative statistic in a bowler's record.Wides are not uncommon. A typical number occurring in a game might be in the range 5-20.A rough analogue of a wide in baseball is the wild pitch.
See also - Bye (cricket) No ball Cricket statistics Cricket terminologyCategory:Cricket laws and regulationsCategory:Cricket terminologyCategory:Bowling (cricket)Category:Cricket records and statisticsCategory:Cricket scoring
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