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Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. The umpire may rule a batsman out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket but was intercepted by any part of the batsman except his bat. The umpire's decision, however, will depend on a number of criteria, including where the ball pitched, whether the ball hit in line with the wickets and whether the batsman was offering a shot. Lbw first appeared in the laws in 1774, as batsmen began to use their pads to prevent the ball hitting their wicket. Since the 1990s, the availability of television replays and, later, ball-tracking technology to assist umpires has increased the percentage of lbws in major matches. However, the accuracy of the technology and the consequences of its use remain controversial. Owing to its complexity, the law is widely misunderstood among the general public and wrong lbw decisions have sometimes caused crowd trouble. Since the law's introduction, the proportion of lbw dismissals has risen steadily. Statistics reveal that the probability of a batsman being dismissed lbw in a test match varies depending on where the match is played and which teams are playing. (Full article...)

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  • Ten bombs are detonated at one of the holiest sites in Buddhism, the Mahabodhi Temple complex (pictured) in India, injuring five people.

  • More than fifty supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi are killed in clashes with the military in Cairo.

  • In tennis, Marion Bartoli wins the women's singles and Andy Murray wins the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.

  • Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing two people.

  • A runaway fuel train derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killing at least fifteen people and destroying at least thirty buildings in the town's core.

  • At least 42 people, mostly students, are killed in a pre-dawn attack at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.

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    July 10: Silence Day; Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973)

  • 1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of the British Raj, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the subcontinent.

  • 1913 – The air temperature in California's Death Valley (pictured) reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest reading ever recorded.

  • 1942 – An American naval airman discovered a downed Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, US, which was used to devise aerial tactics against it.

  • 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.

  • 2011 – After 168 years, the final edition of the News of the World was published as the British tabloid newspaper shut down over allegations that it hacked the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, victims of the 7/7 attacks and relatives of deceased British soldiers.

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