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player outside plane-of-touch
& ball inside line-of-touch

scenario 5

scenario 6

Scenario 5:    Red player kicks the ball from his own 10 metre line where it bounces downfield and stops rolling from touch. Blue player with one foot in-touch and one in the field-of-play bends down and picks up the stationary ball.

  Who has taken the ball into touch? Blue

Scenario 6:    Red player kicks the ball downfield. An opponent standing in-touch with both feet on the ground, slaps the ball, which is still in flight back in field before it has crossed the touch-line.

  Is the ball in-touch? NO

Note:     Law 19 definition, last paragraph.