The leg before wicket (lbw) law is to cricket what the offside rule is to football - confusing. However, you do not need a PhD from Oxford or Cambridge University to work it out - just this simple ...

It doesn't matter if the ball would have gone on to hit the stumps, it can't be given out. Often an lbw decision looks out at first glance, but TV replays showed the ball pitched outside leg stump, ...