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   julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 07:33:56 JST julesh

   The Overton window is a rectangular region around a batsman's body outside of which a ball is deemed to be a no-ball. It is named after the legendary player Sir Samuel Overton, who codified the laws of cricket while visiting India in 1872.

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     julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 07:43:15 JST julesh

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     Returning briefly to the world of actually true facts, it transpires that the laws of cricket were actually codified much earlier, in 1744. Overton is actually a village in Hampshire, which I already knew because we drove through it at some point during covid lockdown, on the way from Basingstoke to my granny's wake, which we had to hold outdoors on the Hampshire Downs. It was raining, ie. good burying weather. Unfortunately it does not appear that the laws of cricket were written in Overton.

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     Tony Vladusich (tonyvladusich@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 12:04:20 JST Tony Vladusich

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     @julesh

     More made up cricket rules pls!