Handled The Ball In Cricket

On march 19 2001 steve waugh became only the sixth batsman in test history to be given out handled the ball.

Handled the ball in cricket.

Kent batsman sean dickson wrote himself into first class cricket history on sunday after becoming the 62nd player to be dismissed handled the ball. As of september 2017 there have been twenty two instances of players being dismissed unusually in international cricket. Michael vaughan pictured above was the last batsmen to be dismissed handled the ball in test cricket against india at bangalore in 2001. Abhijit banare recalls the dismissal of the australian skipper in the historic.

Ways of getting out. Handled the ball was formerly one of the methods of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket but was integrated into the law on obstructing the field when the laws of cricket were rewritten in 2017. Records includes the following current or recent matches. It s a rarity of the 148 062 dismissals in international cricket till date only ten have been in this fashion.

Dickson was dismissed in the unusual fashion on the first morning the kent s. Ten in test cricket nine in one day internationals odis one in twenty20 internationals t20is and two in women s one day international cricket. Handled the ball was a previously a separate method of dismissal now incorporated into obstructing the field. Handled the ball gooch was given out handled the ball against australia in 1993 if a batsman is worried the ball will roll back on to the stumps after playing a shot they can knock the ball away with the bat feet or pads.

South african sean dickson has become just the 60th man in first class history to be given out handled the ball. Most recently however while batting against afghanistan in october 2015 zimbabwe s chamunorwa chibhabha was given out for handling the ball the first time in international cricket for 14. Updates to the laws made by the mcc have scrapped the rarely used handled the ball law bringing the total number of official modes of dismissal down from 10 to nine.