re: Cricket bowler takes face saving catch

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Why does he throw it back? Cricket makes no sense to me.

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It's more of an instinct than anything. A lot of times the batsman hits the ball directly back to the bowler then they wander out of the 'crease' (the line drawn near the stumps) and the bowler throws the ball back at the stumps to try to get the batsman run out.

In this case the ball was hit so hard and fast for a second the bowler probably didn't realize he had caught it and his instinctive reaction was to throw the ball back at the stumps.

Here is an example of a bowler throwing the ball back at the batsman's stumps but gets it wrong: Sometimes it doesn't go exactly right