Handled The Ball In Test Cricket

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.

Handled the ball in test cricket.

Ways of getting out. Michael vaughan pictured above was the last batsmen to be dismissed handled the ball in test cricket against india at bangalore in 2001. 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. Handled ball gooch g a.

Handled the ball rule. Handled ball waugh s r. Handled ball vaughan m p. Handled the ball rule comes under the law 33 of the laws of cricket which is governed by the marylebone cricket club or the mcc.

The first occasion of a batsman being given out handled the ball in international cricket occurred during a test match between south africa and england in cape town in 1957. Handled the ball was a previously a separate method of dismissal now encompassed into obstructing the field. As of september 2017 there have been twenty two instances of players being dismissed unusually in international cricket. The england and wales cricket board ecb announced the lord s test against bangladesh in 2010 would be played under lights with a pink ball in use but their plans were scuppered when the two.

Handled ball haynes d l. There are only nine such incidents in test cricket and only two such dismissals have occurred. Cricket rules law 33 handled the ball. Kent batsman sean dickson wrote himself into first class cricket history on sunday after becoming the 62nd player to be dismissed handled the ball.

In the second innings of the match the south african russell endean padded away a delivery from jim laker the ball looped off his pads into the air and was falling towards his stumps until endean instinctively knocked it. West indies india wankhede stadium. Ten in test cricket nine in one day internationals odis one in twenty20 internationals t20is and two in. Australia india ma chidambaram stadium.