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I thought I would start a topic about the various, and unusual ways of being dismissed in test cricket.
There are 10 ways of being given OUT all up.
How many of you have been dismissed by some of the more unsual ways in your cricket playing career? Has anyone been given out "obstructing the field" for instance? I think it may have happened once in Test Cricket, but I'm not sure by who, or when.
Pies rock
31 Jan 2002, 12:29
Obstructed the field happened once in Test Cricket:
L. Hutton (England) Vs. South Africa The Oval 1951
Four batsman have been Mankad(ed), six have been out handled ball, including our own Steve Waugh recently in India.
My most unusual (and unlucky) was when I was backing up, I was batting with the Number 11 and we needed five to win with two balls left, I said to him I'm running no matter what. So the moron drove it straight down the pitch, the bowler got a finger on it and I was way out of my ground and the game was over...
Fat Red
31 Jan 2002, 12:35
Never. I was Mankaded once but the captain withdrew the appeal.
I've been run out once (in a grand final, probably cost us the game:() and only stumped once. Caught and LBW; I reckon I've only been bowled about 10 times as well.
Fat Red
31 Jan 2002, 12:38
Actually, I've never even played in a game where someone was out handled ball, obstructed field, hit the ball twice or timed out.
I have seen hitwicket a few times.
And I've seen an appeal for obstructing the field which was blatant but wasn't given.
The stupidest way I've got out would have to be ducking a bouncer, didn't bring my bat down, the ball hit it and lollied to first slip:( :D
"hit the ball twice" has nebver occured in Test cricket.
Strange, I reckon. You'd think, even by accident, that a player would have made contact wth the ball twice with his bat at some stage over the last 125 years
Timed out? Now that woud be a laugh. :p Maybe if a string of wickets fall, and the next batter is not prepared to come in, it could happen.
Fat Red
31 Jan 2002, 13:04
It has to be deliberate, Dan. It happens accidentally all the time. But to be out, you have to hit the ball again a second time in an attempt to score runs by doing so. No one is that silly, they know they'd be given out straightaway.
dogboy23
31 Jan 2002, 13:19
Ive only ever been given out L.B.W,caught or run out.Some of the lbw's have been some what amusing and unusual though.:mad:
Originally posted by Fat Red
It has to be deliberate, Dan. It happens accidentally all the time. But to be out, you have to hit the ball again a second time in an attempt to score runs by doing so. No one is that silly, they know they'd be given out straightaway.
Yeah, that's true. Often the ball goes from bat, to pad, to bat again.
If it has to be a deliberate attempt to score runs, before you are given out for hitting the ball twice, then we will proababy never see it.
Fat Red
31 Jan 2002, 13:23
Originally posted by dogboy23
Ive only ever been given out L.B.W,caught or run out.Some of the lbw's have been some what amusing and unusual though.:mad:
never been bowled dogboy? impressive
Jars458
31 Jan 2002, 13:28
I have never been out when my score is 13 or over
Fat Red
31 Jan 2002, 13:31
have you ever scored more than 13?
dogboy23
31 Jan 2002, 14:26
Originally posted by Fat Red
never been bowled dogboy? impressive Hence the lbw's:p I take guard on middle:(
Bomber Spirit
31 Jan 2002, 20:02
Originally posted by Dan26
could[/i] happen. I played in a game where it happened once. I was on a hat-trick at the time too, but unfortunately the bowler doesn't get the credit for timed out.
Turned out the batsman who didn't turn up was answering a call of nature and didn't realise that 2 wickets had fallen while he was in there.
Bomber Spirit
31 Jan 2002, 20:04
Originally posted by dogboy23
Ive only ever been given out L.B.W,caught or run out.Whereas when you were bowled, you walked?;)
The most unusual dismaisal I've seen was Graham Gooch being given out caught behind to a delivery from left arm spinner Abdul Qasim that missed his outside edge by about 4 inches in 1987 in Pakistan.
Mind you in the same game various England players were given out caught to deliveries that ballooned straight off their pads to close fielders or LBW to balls that would have missed 2 sets of stumps.It was interesting cricket where the umpires seemed to have invented a whole new set of ways of getting dismissed but they forgot to tell the England batsmen about them.
Sadly for cricket it didn't seem to take on & these revolutionary ways of beign dismmissed are only dusted off for special occasions when teams visit Asia.
London Dave
1 Feb 2002, 07:30
Fat Red mentioned a Handled the Ball, actually 'got one' in a game a couple of years ago, guy did a Goochie v Merv replay. Anyways, head off at the end of the innings and they've given me the wicket, so I get 5 for...unfortunately, the poms I play with seem to have a tradition of making you shout a large jug of beer for such an achievement, which is perhaps why I got credited with it!
Booze Hound
1 Feb 2002, 22:46
Tough luck London Dave, but that's how us Poms play it:)
Bomber Spirit- under the old Laws that batsman need not have been out. The umpires should have investigated what had happened and only granted the dismissal if content that the delay was deliberate. This produced some grey areas.
Under the revised Laws the batsman has three minutes from the fall of the last wicket before he must be ready to play the next ball or, if the non striker, be in place so that his partner can play it.
Much simpler for the umpire.
Santos L Helper
2 Feb 2002, 06:24
My most unusual dismissal happened one day when I had been fortunate enough to knock up 145 (weak bowling attack) and at the end I was knackered so I went for another slog and skied the ball straight up to the keeper. I just started walking when suddenly (for some unknown reason) the keeper took his gloves off to catch the ball. I stood their gobsmacked as he proceeded to drop the catch and then I just started laughing, but I had forgotten to get back in my crease and one of his mates yelled out 'run him out' to which the keeper dived full length onto the stumps knocking them all over, which just made me laugh even more.
I believe this is one of the strangest 'runouts' I've seen.
Bomber Spirit
2 Feb 2002, 15:42
Originally posted by Booze Hound
Bomber Spirit- under the old Laws that batsman need not have been out. The umpires should have investigated what had happened and only granted the dismissal if content that the delay was deliberate. This produced some grey areas.
Which goes to show the umpire had no more idea about the rules than we did. We waited around for ages and the batsman didn't show, then the umpire gave him timed out; and that was the end of the innings.
P---ed me off a bit. I was on a hat-trick at the time, but with the last 3 wickets falling in 2 balls, I never got a chance to get the hat-trick:(
Kangas_Big_Fan
2 Feb 2002, 17:10
i have seen one guy knock 2 stumps over with his bat off a no ball and break the bail he got to keep it aswell