Rarest form of dismissal: A British cricketer out handling a no-ball

Rarest form of dismissal: A British cricketer out handling a no-ball: If you are one among the most who feel they have seen almost all forms of dismissals in the game of cricket, then you will certainly be surprised to know that there is this manner of getting out called ‘Out handling a no-ball’. A British cricketer who was dismissed is probably the first cricketer to have been given out for handling a no-ball, as reported on Wednesday by a British newspaper The Times.

The batsman who got out is Bryn Darbyshire, who was playing for Lymington Second XI against South Wilts in the Southern England town of Hampshire. Darbyshire, hit a ball, and as it was closer to him picked it up and threw it towards a fielder. But the fielding team, South Wilts took his act in a negative frame and appealed that the batsman had handled the ball which he shouldn’t have touched. It was determined that he had done so and was given out, at the same time it was also confirmed that the bowler had overstepped while delivering that particular ball and hence it was a no-ball.

As per the Law 33 of the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) the parent body that forms and imposes the Laws of Cricket, the batsman had to ask permission from a fielder before handling the ball.

The Times  reported Mark Williams, laws of cricket adviser at the MCC, that saying this was possibly the first time that a batsman had got out under clause 16 of Law 24 (no ball).

Williams said: “The law is there so that a batsman can’t touch the ball deliberately while the fielding team is trying to run him out, “The fielding team were perfectly justified in appealing.”

At the same time the batsman Darbyshire said that: “I don’t think the umpire did anything wrong, but I think it was bad sportsmanship on the part of our opponents.

“I had hit the same bowler for six off my second ball and was taking him apart. They probably wanted to see the back of me.”

This case has shown us a new manner in which a batsman can be determined out even if it’s a no-ball, as we usually relate run out, obstructing the field and hitting the ball twice as means of being declared out on a ball where the bowler oversteps. While a batsman cannot be get out bowled, caught and LBW on a no-ball.