Brij Bushan Vij wrote: This 100-link chain you refer is 66 feet or 22 yards, the distance between *wickets between bails in CRICKET field*. This is really 20 metre.
It's actually almost 12 cm longer than 20 m, so it's incorrect to say that a distance of 22 yards is really 20 m. It's really 20.12 m (to the nearest cm). However, if you were to say that, for all practical purposes, we could (and should) set the length of a cricket pitch to a nice round 20 m, I'd agree with that. This is totally academic for me, of course, as I've never been interested in cricket. After a certain year in high school, we could choose between cricket and tennis. I chose the latter. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
