SERIOUSLY, NINE?

Yesterday during The Luncheon Adjournment Cricket Show the Australian players were challenged to list the "10 methods of dismissal". Eventually they arrived at Nine's 10:

1. Bowled
2. Caught
3. Stumped
4. Run out
5. LBW
6. Hit wicket
7. Timed out
8. Obstructing the field
9. Mankad
10. Handled ball

There were yuks a-plenty as the players muddled their way to ten. There were no yuks a-plenty at Nine's flimsy grasp of the dismissals.

Firstly, Nine said hitting the ball twice was not a mode of dismissal. Secondly, Nine ticked off a Mankad as a stand-alone method of dismissal when it is a run out. Has Nine heard of the word research?

Nor was there any mention of "retired - out" which is a slightly different kettle of kippers, but an "out" nevertheless.

For the record, the 10 methods of dismissal are:

1. Law 30: Bowled
2. Law 31: Timed out
3. Law 32: Caught
4. Law 33: Handled the ball
5. Law 34: Hit the ball twice
6. Law 35: Hit wicket
7. Law 36: Leg before wicket
8. Law 37: Obstructing the field
9. Law 38: Run out
10. Law 39: Stumped

Comments

[@tkyc]

Duffers!

Hoping the coverage contract sees Nein suffer Law 31

[Tony Tea]

I'm actually quite surprised I have not heard more about Nine's stuff up.

[The Don has risen]

you can no longer Mankad! you must throw it before you start your action.

Therefore it is no-ball (for throwing) and out run out!

[Lindsay Horne]

Is caught and bowled,not a method of dismissal, therefore there are 11
methods of dismissal ??

[Tony Tea]

Caught and Bowled (Law 32-30) falls into the same category of dismissal as Handled the Ball Twice (Law 33-34).

[The Don has risen]

I might add retired out is theoretical until the end of the innings.

A captain (not the Umpire) can allow a retired batsman to bat again

[Big Ramifications]

I would have gone with haddock.

[m0nty]

I never got how Nine was Still The One. Surely ABC1 has always and will always be the One. Nine is the Nine.

[Big Ramifications]

Groan.

[Big Ramifications]

Must Watch!!!! Top 11 Weirdest Dismissals in Cricket!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jczeBJnzOQU

We are all familiar with the once-yearly discussion you have with kids, foreigners et al, where "it doesn't have to hit your legs to be dismissed LBW."

I must admit I've never seen an example, it's always just been in theory. #6 has Slashin' Shachin getting dismissed LBW while trying to duck a Pidge bouncer. I reckon Hawkeye would have had it clipping the top of middle. *does the "bunny ears" send off*

The last one is worth a look, too. Trying to duck a bean ball. Getting clean bowled by a corker yorker instead. Ha! *does the "bunny ears" send off*

[Carrot]

I've always wondered about hitting the ball twice. Has there been a recorded instance of it in living memory? And what do you have to do for it to count? Edge it in the air and then hit it again? Obviously edging the ball on to your pads and then hitting it away from the stumps doesn't count, because I've seen that on countless occasions.

[Carrot]

PS, who came up with Nine's list? Slatts? It often bewilders me how little guys that have made their living out of the game for decades actually know about it, particularly when it's such a statistics/rules based sport. It's not as though the ten modes of dismissal are that obscure anyway, in fact it's not so long ago that they quizzed the players at the AB Medal: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ZVHxDRrG8