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Umpiring local cricket is more about common sense than adherence to laws. For example in a recent vets game I was umpiring when a bowler broke down 3 balls into an over. The guy who stepped in to replace him is well known to me, good bloke, but a classic white-line-fever, win at all costs type. He doesn't often bowl in games  He proceeded to bowl three pretty innocuous deliveries each about a foot over the line. I probably should have warned him after the first one, and then I could have called the second one. But it was a pretty friendly game, I didn't want any agro from him, and I knew he wasn't going to bowl again, so I just let it go. Made no difference to the game. But because I let the first one go, I didn't really think I should call the second, or the third.