In the sport of cricket, a wide is one of two things: · The event of a ball being delivered by a bowler too wide or high to be hit by the batsman, and ruled so by the umpire. · A run scored by the batting team as a penalty to the bowling team when this occurs. A wide does not count as one of the six balls in an over, nor does it count as a ball faced by the batsman. When a wide is bowled, a number of runs are awarded to the batting team, the number varying depending on local playing conditions in force. In Test cricket the award is one run; in some domestic competitions, particularly one-day cricket competitions, the award is two runs. These runs are scored as extra and are added to the team's total, but are not added to any batsman's total. A batsman can not, by definition, be out bowled, leg before wicket, caught, or hit the ball twice off a wide, as a ball cannot be ruled as a wide if the ball strikes th