10 Batsmen who got out handling the ball

10 Batsmen who got out handling the ball: No batsman who has ever played cricket or plays cricket likes to get out. Their wicket is perhaps the most prized possession for any player. It is definitely not a great feeling getting out. Things get worse when a player gets out in an unusual and unconventional way. One such unusual mode of dismissal is by handling the ball. Handled the ball is Law 33 in the laws of cricket established by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The law defines this mode of dismissal as a batsman can be given out if they intentionally touch the ball with a hand that is not holding their bat. The only exception is when the batsman touches the ball in order to save oneself from an injury. In the history of the game in international cricket, there have been 10 such unfortunate batsmen (7 in Tests and 3 in ODIs) who have been given out for handling the ball: 1. Russell Endean (South Africa) v England in 1957: South African cricketer William Russell Endean. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Russell Endean was the first player in international cricket to be dismissed for handling the ball. South Africa was playing England at Cape Town. During the second innings of the match, Endean was facing Jim Laker. He padded away the ball and the ball looped off his pads into the air, and was moving towards the stumps. Endean pushed the ball away with his free hand before it could hit the stumps. After a lot of discussion between the umpires, he was adjudged out. Also Read – 7 Batsmen who got out obstructing the field 2. Andrew Hilditch (Australia) v Pakistan in 1979: Andrew Hilditch, Australia. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Getty Images) Compared to Endean, Hilditch was even unluckier. In the Test match against Pakistan at Perth, he was at the non-strikers end and had scored 29 runs when a wide throw came his way. Hilditch picked up the ball and gave it to the bowler Sarfaraz Khan. Khan appealed and the umpire ruled Hilditch out. Well, that was no way close to being in the spirit of the game, many felt including Pakistani player Asif Iqbal who commented on the incident as totally against the morality. This is the only case of handling the ball when a non-striker was given out in this mode. 3. Mohsin Khan (Pakistan) v Australia in 1982 (Photo Source: AFP) This was another Pakistan and Australia Test played at Karachi. But on this occasion, it was Pakistan’s Mohsin Khan who was at the receiving end. Aussie pacer Geoff Lawson, who later went on to coach Pakistan in 2007 t20 World Cup, was the bowler. Mohsin was on 58 when he defended the ball and the ball kept moving towards the stump. Mohsin pushed the ball and the players appealed. He was given out. Following the dismissal, the crowd hurled stones at the Aussie players which caused some disruption before the crowd finally settled. 4. Desmond Haynes (West Indies) v India in 1983 Desmond Haynes. (Photo Source: Getty Images) An year later, in 1983 in a Test match at Mumbai, West Indian legend who scored 18 Test centuries in his career, Desmond Haynes, was given out handling the ball when he was batting on 55. Kapil Dev was the bowler. Yet again, the ball was moving towards the stumps after hitting the pads of the batsman; Haynes knocked the ball away and was given out. Haynes refused to go and the umpires had to ask the bowler if he wanted to take his appeal back. Kapil Dev refused to do so and Haynes had to leave. 5. Mohinder Amarnath (India) v Australia in 1986 Amarnath became the first victim of the shrewd dismissal form in the ODIs. The match was at MCG and Amarnath was batting on 15. Off-spinner Greg Matthews bowled a turner which was moving towards the stump after it passed through Amarnath. Amarnath was quick to fiddle the ball away but in the process he was adjudged to be handling the ball. 6. Graham Gooch (England) v Australia in 1993 Graham Gooch, the English batsman with 67,057 runs across first-class and limited-overs games perhaps would have never thought that he would be dismissed in this manner. He was batting on 133 in a Test at Old Trafford when a Merv Hughes’ delivery came his way. He was good to defend the ball, but the ball kept moving towards the stump. This prompted the Englishman to punch the ball away. The Aussies appealed and Gooch was sent packing. This became the only instance when a batsman was given out for handling the ball after notching up a century. 7. Daryll Cullinan (South Africa) v West Indies in 1999: The youngest South African player to score a first-class century, Daryll Cullinan, was facing West Indian spin bowler Keith Arthurton in an ODI at Durban. Cullinan played the ball and the ball hit the surface and looped back again when Cullinan caught the ball with his free hand. The ball wasn’t anywhere close to the stumps but the West Indian skipper, Brian Lara, appealed and the batsman was given out. He was dismissed for 46. 8. Steve Waugh (Australia) v India in 2001: Harbhajan Singh was at his peak best during this Australian tour to India. It was the Chennai Test where he added a little more salt to the wounds of Aussie skipper Steve Waugh who was hit on the pads by Harbhajan’s delivery. The umpire did not give him out leg before. But in the process, Waugh soon realised that the ball was rolling towards the stumps. He moved the ball away with his hands which prompted the Indians to appeal and he was given out then. Waugh was dismissed for 47. 9. Michael Vaughan (England) v India in 2001: (source) Months later, in the same year, world cricket saw another similar dismissal in a Test match between India and England at Bangalore. Vaughan, who looked settled at the crease with 64 runs, was facing Sarandeep Singh. He swept the ball which didn’t hit his bat but took a slight knick on his pads. The ball rolled along the ground. It was certainly not going towards the stumps, but an instinctive Vaughan brushed the ball aside only to be given out handling the ball. But unlike other players who have got out to this method, Vaughan was sporting enough to later admit his mistake and quoted ‘I got it all wrong, I’m an idiot.’ 10. Chamu Chibhabha (Zimbabwe) v Afghanistan in 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PnkzJgG2wQ Chamu Chibhabha became the latest victim of handling the ball in Afghanistan’s tour to Zimbabwe in October 2015. Chibhabha stepped away to cut left-arm spinner Amir Hamza, who had opened the bowling, but chopped the ball close to his stumps. He stuck his hand out to catch the ball, tossing it away, but wicketkeeper Mohammad Shahzad immediately appealed. Umpire Nigel Llong upheld the appeal, and Chibhabha became the first Zimbabwe batsman to be given out for handling the ball.

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