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Re: How long is a Chain?



Athan <athan@nospam.bigfoot.com> wrote:

>In the interests of seasonal accuracy, having qualified to umpire cricket under
>the 1973 code, before metric took over in 1980 (bringing us the metric 6 ball
>over etc) we were taught that a chain is the distance between middle stump to
>middle stump, 22 yards.

Is that from the middle of the stump or its inner or outer edge?

Geoff Lambert