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Surely the high sticking should be about people swinging their mallets over shoulder height that are likely to make contact not plucking balls out the air.

This is the crux of why it's such a difficult rule to write. I've never thought 'oooh that looks dangerous' before someone gets hit. They seem to come from nowhere. I've even been hit and not really understood how it happened, let alone been able to blame the hitter with recklessness.