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2:56 AM - Today

My rule of thumb is that once a player has a ball in his hands, it's available for him to identify it.  If he then puts that ball in play, it's his ball in play, no longer a wrong ball (as Doug has said).  There is one exception - when a player marks his ball and sets it aside without intending it to be in play and plays it from where he set it aside, that is now a wrong ball.

It's close to a useful rule of thumb in the correct context - if you have trouble distinguishing whether that ball you have played is a substituted versus wrong ball. But this suggestion has no general rules authority to change the status of a ball played as a wrong ball into a substituted ball. 
I'd be pleased to see you demonstrate this is wrong - I'm always keen to learn something new about the rules.

statistics: Posted by Thom — 4:10 AM - Today

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