Wide ball

An umpire calls a ball wide if, in his or her opinion, the batsman did not have a reasonable opportunity to score off the ball. A ball is called wide when the bowler bowls a bouncer that goes over the head of the batsman. A wide adds one run to the batting teams score, in addition to any other runs which are scored off it, and the batsman cant be dismissed off a wide except by being run out or stumped, or by handling the ball, hitting his wicket, or obstructing the field.