"RULE 110 DEAD BALL
1. A ball will be declared dead if any of the following occur:
a. After a delivery (and before the next delivery on the same lane), attention is immediately called to
the fact that one or more pins were missing from the setup."
This rule needs clarification.
Theoretically, a player can bowl a ball, leave a split, walk back and they or another team member can claim a pin was missing from the deck, thereby rebowling the frame.
Generally speaking, to date, it has been accepted that if the bowler or another person calls a pin missing before the ball hits the pins a dead ball would be declared. However, this is not in concert with the above rule. In some instances a witness to the call has been required, however, if the ball takes some 2.3 seconds from foul line to headpin, and the call is made when the ball is say, half way down the lane, in the remaining 1.15 seconds someone needs to hear the call, look at and focus on the deck to confirm the call. This is not required by the TBA and WTBA rule.
One possible solution is that when the player makes a legal release of the ball they accept the deck (as they would with off spot pins) and the resulting leave, however, if there are not ten pins at the time of the release has a legal release been made. It seems so looking at:
RULE 108 PINFALL - LEGAL
1. A ball is legally delivered when it leaves the bowler’s possession and crosses the foul line into playing
territory.
2. Every ball delivered by the player will count, unless declared a dead ball.
Bearing in mind that although many centres now have some sort of TV replay, the rule should be made clearer.
1. A ball will be declared dead if any of the following occur:
a. After a delivery (and before the next delivery on the same lane), attention is immediately called to
the fact that one or more pins were missing from the setup."
This rule needs clarification.
Theoretically, a player can bowl a ball, leave a split, walk back and they or another team member can claim a pin was missing from the deck, thereby rebowling the frame.
Generally speaking, to date, it has been accepted that if the bowler or another person calls a pin missing before the ball hits the pins a dead ball would be declared. However, this is not in concert with the above rule. In some instances a witness to the call has been required, however, if the ball takes some 2.3 seconds from foul line to headpin, and the call is made when the ball is say, half way down the lane, in the remaining 1.15 seconds someone needs to hear the call, look at and focus on the deck to confirm the call. This is not required by the TBA and WTBA rule.
One possible solution is that when the player makes a legal release of the ball they accept the deck (as they would with off spot pins) and the resulting leave, however, if there are not ten pins at the time of the release has a legal release been made. It seems so looking at:
RULE 108 PINFALL - LEGAL
1. A ball is legally delivered when it leaves the bowler’s possession and crosses the foul line into playing
territory.
2. Every ball delivered by the player will count, unless declared a dead ball.
Bearing in mind that although many centres now have some sort of TV replay, the rule should be made clearer.