Handled The Ball In Cricket

Abhijit banare recalls the dismissal of the australian skipper in the historic.

Handled the ball in cricket. Dickson was dismissed in the unusual fashion on the first morning the kent s. South african sean dickson has become just the 60th man in first class history to be given out handled the ball. Records includes the following current or recent matches. As of september 2017 there have been twenty two instances of players being dismissed unusually in international cricket.

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. 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. There are unfortunate ways to get out in cricket and then there s handled the ball instances when the batsmen involuntarily take matter into their own hands quite literally while the ball s still in play. It dictated that either batsman can be given out if they intentionally touch the ball with a hand that is not holding their bat an exception was given if the batsman handled the ball to avoid.

It s a rarity of the 148 062 dismissals in international cricket till date only ten have been in this fashion. Kent batsman sean dickson wrote himself into first class cricket history on sunday after becoming the 62nd player to be dismissed handled the ball. Michael vaughan pictured above was the last batsmen to be dismissed handled the ball in test cricket against india at bangalore in 2001. On march 19 2001 steve waugh became only the sixth batsman in test history to be given out handled the ball.

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. Ten in test cricket nine in one day internationals odis one in twenty20 internationals t20is and two in women s one day international cricket.