List of unusual dismissals in international cricket

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Mohinder Amarnath
Mohinder Amarnath (pictured in 2012) is the only player to be dismissed for both handling the ball and obstructing the field in international cricket.[1]

In cricket, a player is dismissed when they lose their wicket. At this point, the batsman must discontinue batting and leave the field permanently. A batsman can be dismissed in a number of ways, the most common being bowled, caught, leg before wicket (LBW), stumped, run out and hit wicket. Much rarer are hit the ball twice, obstructing the field, retired out and timed out.[a] These are regarded by analysts as unusual ways of dismissals in cricket, where the bowler is denied any credit.[b][4][5] Handled the ball was a previously a separate method of dismissal, now incorporated into obstructing the field. As of September 2017, there have been twenty-two instances of players being dismissed unusually in international cricket: ten in Test cricket, nine in One Day Internationals (ODIs), one in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and two in Women's One Day International cricket.

Test cricket[]

In Tests, England batsman Leonard Hutton was the first player to be dismissed for obstructing the field, while playing against South Africa in August 1951.[6][c] Between January 1957 and March 2001, six different players were dismissed for handling the ball, the most common form of an unusual dismissal.[7] Sri Lanka cricketers Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene are the only Test players to be dismissed retired out, when playing against Bangladesh in 2001. Sri Lanka's captain, Sanath Jayasuriya, received strong criticism for the team's act.[8][9]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Leonard Hutton Obstructing the field 27  England  South Africa The Oval, London, England 5th Test 16 August 1951 Won[10]
2 Russell Endean Handled the ball 3  South Africa  England Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town, South Africa 2nd Test 1 January 1957 Lost[11]
3 Andrew Hilditch Handled the ball 29  Australia  Pakistan W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, Australia 2nd Test 24 March 1979 Won[12]
4 Mohsin Khan Handled the ball 58  Pakistan  Australia National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan 1st Test 22 September 1982 Won[13]
5 Desmond Haynes Handled the ball 55  West Indies  India Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India 4th Test 24 November 1983 Drawn[14]
6 Graham Gooch Handled the ball 133  England  Australia Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England 1st Test 3 June 1993 Lost[15]
7 Steve Waugh Handled the ball 47  Australia  India M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India 3rd Test 18 March 2001 Lost[16]
8 Marvan Atapattu Retired out 201  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2nd Test 6 September 2001 Won[17]
9 Mahela Jayawardene Retired out 150  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2nd Test 6 September 2001 Won[17]
10 Michael Vaughan Handled the ball 64  England  India M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India 3rd Test 19 December 2001 Drawn[18]

Men's One Day International cricket[]

In men's ODIs, nine different players have been dismissed on ten occasions in an unusual manner. The first such occasion was when India's Mohinder Amarnath was given out for handling the ball, against Australia in February 1986. The following year, Pakistan cricketer Rameez Raja became the first player to be given out for obstructing the field in ODIs. In 1989, Amarnath was dismissed in the same fashion, while playing in a match against Sri Lanka, thus becoming the first player to be dismissed by two different unusual methods.[6] Obstructing the field has been the most common method of unusual dismissal in men's ODIs, happening on six of the nine occasions. Zimbabwe's Chamu Chibhabha is the most recent male cricketer to be dismissed in an unusual way, when he was given out for handling the ball in a match against Afghanistan in October 2015.[19]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Mohinder Amarnath Handled the ball 15  India  Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia 2nd Final 9 February 1986 Lost[20]
2 Rameez Raja Obstructing the field 99  Pakistan  England National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan 2nd ODI 20 November 1987 Lost[21]
3 Mohinder Amarnath Obstructing the field 28  India  Sri Lanka Gujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad, India ODI 22 October 1989 Won[22]
4 Daryll Cullinan Handled the ball 46  South Africa  West Indies Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban, South Africa 27 January 1999 Won[23]
5 Inzamam ul-Haq Obstructing the field 16  Pakistan  India Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar, Pakistan 1st ODI 6 February 2006 Won[24]
6 Mohammed Hafeez Obstructing the field 0  Pakistan  South Africa Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban, South Africa 4th ODI 21 March 2013 Won[25]
7 Anwar Ali Obstructing the field 0  Pakistan  South Africa St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa 2nd ODI 27 November 2013 Won[26]
8 Ben Stokes Obstructing the field 10  England  Australia Lord's, London, England 2nd ODI 5 September 2015 Lost[27]
9 Chamu Chibhabha Handled the ball 18  Zimbabwe  Afghanistan Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 3rd ODI 20 October 2015 Won[28]
10 Xavier Marshall Obstructing the field 34  United States  United Arab Emirates Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah ODI 8 December 2019 Won[29]
11 Danushka Gunathilaka Obstructing the field 55  Sri Lanka  West Indies Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda 1st ODI 10 March 2021 Lost[30]

T20I cricket[]

The first instance of an unusual dismissal in T20Is occurred in June 2017, when England's Jason Roy was given out obstructing the field in a match against South Africa.[31]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Jason Roy Obstructing the field 67  England  South Africa County Ground, Taunton, England 2nd T20I 23 June 2017 Lost[32]
2 Obstructing the field 16  Maldives  Qatar Al Amerat Cricket Stadium, Muscat, Oman T20I 23 January 2019 Lost[33]
3 Sonam Tobgay Retired out 24  Bhutan  Maldives Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur T20I 7 December 2019 Lost[34]

Women's ODI cricket[]

In international women's cricket, there have been two instances of unusual dismissals: the first came in an ODI match between Sri Lanka and the West Indies in April 2010.[35] Sri Lanka wicket-keeper Dilani Manodara was retired out due to her slow scoring rate in her team's first innings, having taken 70 minutes and 39 balls to score 8 runs.[36] The most recent instance of an unusual dismissal happened when India's Thirush Kamini was given out for obstructing the field in a match against West Indies in 2016.[37]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Dilani Manodara Retired out 8  Sri Lanka  West Indies , St Paul's, St Kitts and Nevis 1st ODI 18 April 2010 Lost[36]
2 Thirush Kamini Obstructing the field 2  India  West Indies Mulupadu Cricket Ground, Vijayawada, India 2nd ODI 13 November 2016 Won[38]

Notes[]

  1. ^ As of September 2017, no player has been dismissed in the "Timed out" fashion in international cricket.[2]
  2. ^ A bowler gets credit for all usual dismissals except run out.[3]
  3. ^ September 2017, he remains the only player to be dismissed in this mode in Test cricket.

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