The quality or state of being wide; breadth;
width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.
"I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe."
--Swift. [1913 Webster]
Large extent in all directions; broadness;
greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean. [1913
Webster]
Word Net
wideness n : the property of being wide; having great width [syn: broadness] [ant: narrowness]English
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- For other uses of the word or acronym, see WIDE.
A wide does not count as one of the six balls in
an 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 extras
and are added to the team's total, but are not added to any
batsman's total.
A batsman can not, by definition, be out bowled,
leg
before wicket, caught, or hit the ball twice off a wide, as a
ball cannot be ruled as a wide if the ball strikes the batsman's
bat or person. He may be out handled the ball, hit wicket,
obstructing the field, run out, or 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
byes.
If the wicket-keeper misses the ball and it
travels all the way to the boundary,
the batting team immediately scores five wides, similarly as if the
ball had been hit to the boundary for a four on a
no ball.
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,
and are recorded as a negative statistic in a bowler's record.
However, this has only been the case since the early 1980's - the
first Test to
record wides (and no-balls) against the bowler's analyses was
India
vs Pakistan
in September, 1983.
Wides are not uncommon. A typical number
occurring in a game might be in the range 5-20.
The baseball equivalent of a wide
is a called "ball", in the
sense that each is judged to be an "unfair" or "unhittable"
delivery by the umpire.
wideness in Dutch: Wide
(cricket)