List of unusual dismissals in international cricket

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.[lower-alpha 1] These are regarded by analysts as unusual ways of dismissals in cricket, where the bowler is denied any credit.[lower-alpha 2][4][5] 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: ten in Test cricket, nine in One Day Internationals (ODIs), one in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and two in Women's One Day International cricket.

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]

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][lower-alpha 3] 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 field27 England South AfricaThe Oval, London, England5th Test16 August 1951Won[10]
2 Russell Endean Handled the ball3 South Africa EnglandNewlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town, South Africa2nd Test1 January 1957Lost[11]
3 Andrew Hilditch Handled the ball29 Australia PakistanW.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, Australia2nd Test24 March 1979Won[12]
4 Mohsin Khan Handled the ball58 Pakistan AustraliaNational Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan1st Test22 September 1982Won[13]
5 Desmond Haynes Handled the ball55 West Indies IndiaWankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India4th Test24 November 1983Drawn[14]
6 Graham Gooch Handled the ball133 England AustraliaOld Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England1st Test3 June 1993Lost[15]
7 Steve Waugh Handled the ball47 Australia IndiaM. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India3rd Test18 March 2001Lost[16]
8 Marvan Atapattu Retired out201 Sri Lanka BangladeshSinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka2nd Test6 September 2001Won[17]
9 Mahela Jayawardene Retired out150 Sri Lanka BangladeshSinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka2nd Test6 September 2001Won[17]
10 Michael Vaughan Handled the ball64 England IndiaM. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India3rd Test19 December 2001Drawn[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 ball15 India AustraliaMelbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia2nd Final9 February 1986Lost[20]
2 Rameez Raja Obstructing the field99 Pakistan EnglandNational Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan2nd ODI20 November 1987Lost[21]
3 Mohinder Amarnath Obstructing the field28 India Sri LankaGujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad, IndiaODI22 October 1989Won[22]
4 Daryll Cullinan Handled the ball46 South Africa West IndiesKingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban, South Africa27 January 1999Won[23]
5 Inzamam ul-Haq Obstructing the field16 Pakistan IndiaArbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar, Pakistan1st ODI6 February 2006Won[24]
6 Mohammed Hafeez Obstructing the field0 Pakistan South AfricaKingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban, South Africa4th ODI21 March 2013Won[25]
7 Anwar Ali Obstructing the field0 Pakistan South AfricaSt George's Park, Port Elizabeth, South Africa2nd ODI27 November 2013Won[26]
8 Ben Stokes Obstructing the field10 England AustraliaLord's, London, England2nd ODI5 September 2015Lost[27]
9 Chamu Chibhabha Handled the ball18 Zimbabwe AfghanistanQueens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe3rd ODI20 October 2015Won[28]
10 Xavier Marshall Obstructing the field34 United States United Arab EmiratesSharjah Cricket Stadium, SharjahODI8 December 2019Won[29]

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.[30]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Jason Roy Obstructing the field67 England South AfricaCounty Ground, Taunton, England2nd T20I23 June 2017Lost[31]
2 Hassan Rasheed Obstructing the field16 Maldives QatarAl Amerat Cricket Stadium, Muscat, OmanT20I23 January 2019Lost[32]
3 Sonam Tobgay Retired out24 Bhutan MaldivesTribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, KirtipurT20I7 December 2019Lost[33]

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.[34] 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.[35] 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.[36]

No. Player Dismissal Runs Team Opposition Venue Match Date Result
1 Dilani Manodara Retired out8 Sri Lanka West IndiesSt Paul's Sporting Complex, St Paul's, St Kitts and Nevis1st ODI18 April 2010Lost[35]
2 Thirush Kamini Obstructing the field2 India West IndiesMulupadu Cricket Ground, Vijayawada, India2nd ODI13 November 2016Won[37]

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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