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This quiz<\/a>\u00a0will test your knowledge on the leg before wicket (LBW) dismissal in cricket.<\/p>\n Also play: The ultimate quiz on the run-out dismissal<\/a><\/p>\n In his seminal book Next Man In: A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs, Gerald Brodribb opened the chapter on leg before wicket with the words \u201cno dismissal has produced so much argument as lbw\u201d. In Cricket and the Law: The Man in White Is Always Right, David Fraser added that \u201carguments about bias and incompetence in adjudication inform almost every discussion about lbw decisions.\u201d Few would argue with these words. The decisions used to split opinions, and continues to do so even after the advent of technology.<\/p>\n Also play: Quiz! How well do you know these cricketing uncles?<\/a><\/p>\n The LBW has undergone many tweaks over the years. The arrival of DRS has pushed cricket to do something unprecedented: batters can now be ruled out or not out LBW based on whether the ball would have hit the stumps (instead of something that had already occurred).<\/p>\n Also play: Quiz! How well do you know these cricketers-in-law?<\/a><\/p>\n Take our quiz to test your knowledge on the leg before wicket dismissal.<\/p>\n The LBW quiz: Who was never given out LBW at home across 54 Test innings? <\/p>\n Please refresh the page if the quiz does not load properly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This quiz\u00a0will test your knowledge on the leg before wicket (LBW) dismissal in cricket. Also play: The ultimate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}