Watch: Third Umpire Demands Replay, Calls Rare ‘Wicket-Keeper’ No Ball

A law that rarely comes into play in cricket is when a wicket-keeper batter claims or interferes with play by keeping his gloves ahead of the stumps. But that is exactly the sin that Northamptonshire wicket-keeper Lewis McManus made in a Vitality T20 Blast contest against Somerset. With Somerset’s Tom Kohler-Cadmore on strike, McManus had just appealed for a stumping. However, after replays showed that McManus’ gloves had just crossed the line of the stumps before he collected the ball, the third umpire decided to call it a no-ball altogether.Although McManus had collected the ball well behind the stumps, his gloves had crossed the stumps before Kohler-Cadmore had played the ball. Although harsh, as per the laws of cricket, it is a clear no-ball.