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by **cc..** » Wed, 15 May 1991 15:24:23

Quote:

> Chewing Gum, a batsmans best friend. :-)

> The Lemming
> --

I don't know about you Sarge, but I always thought that a box/protector was
a batsman's best friend! (Closely followed by the chewie, of course :).

Rob.

by **Paul Bickersta** » Thu, 16 May 1991 05:06:52

I once saw Gavaskar get out in Oz for handling the ball but don't
recall whether it was a test or not. Poor bloke, he was just helping
the fieldsman return the ball from near the base of his stumps to
the bowler ;-)

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by **Paul Bickersta** » Thu, 16 May 1991 05:18:00

I can recall seeing several players in Australia a few years ago whose
helmet fell off while making a stroke and dislodged the bails.
Apparently they were not doing up the strap for comfort in the
heat. After several repeats the Oz management must have said
something because it seemed to stop. These may have been one
day games but I think some were in tests.

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by **Pathikrit Bandyopadhy** » Thu, 16 May 1991 01:07:33

one unusal dismissal that i remember (may be i should not say this because i
always***up the names. must be growing old) is when denis compton (this name
i am sure of) kicked the ball to get vijay hazare (this i am sceptic about) run
out. is there any other incident like this ?

by **Greg Widdicom** » Thu, 16 May 1991 02:31:06

Quote:

>Rick McCosker in the centenary test. He was struck in the face by a
>Willis bouncer, breaking his jaw. But the worst cut of all was the ball
>droping onto his gloves and then onto the stumps :-(.

>--

>Department of Computer Science | heretic: someone who disgrees with you
>University of Queensland | about something neither of you knows
>Australia | anything about.

Ouch! Actually, it was a little worse than this ... he was hooking
and he got a top edge. The ball then smacked him in the face and he
was out as Brendan said. He came back in to bat in the second innings
at #11 and scored 25 runs! His face had this huge bandage around it
and was the size of a watermelon.

Greg Chappell was dismissed in the '72 tour of England almost the same
way. He hooked a ball, top edged it into his throat and was then
bowled.

by **SXK..** » Thu, 16 May 1991 03:31:01

(Pathikrit Bandyopadhyay) says:

Quote:

>one unusal dismissal that i remember (may be i should not say this because i
>always***up the names. must be growing old) is when denis compton (this
>name
>i am sure of) kicked the ball to get vijay hazare (this i am sceptic about)
>run
>out. is there any other incident like this ?

actually i think it was vijay merchant. botham tried a similar stunt and so has
kapildev (both failed). holding went to new heights by kicking the stumps when
no balled in New Zealand.
The Thinker |
Penn State University |

by **Kumar Venkatasubramani** » Thu, 16 May 1991 04:35:02

Quote:

>Rick McCosker in the centenary test. He was struck in the face by a
>Willis bouncer, breaking his jaw. But the worst cut of all was the ball
>droping onto his gloves and then onto the stumps :-(.

>--

Was this the incident that prompted Time magazine to feature an
injured batsman on its cover ? Yes, the American magazine had
a cover story on cricket once, probably in the late 1970s.
Does anyone remember this issue of Time ? I would love to read
what they had to say about cricket.

Kumar

by **Sanjay Srivasta** » Thu, 16 May 1991 12:26:04

Quote:

> I am not sure if Vinno was also a victim of such a hat-trick, but I do
> remember Vengsarkar getting out due to the hat falling on the stumps,
> in the 1977-78 Indian tour of Australia.

Vengsarkar had a similar experience during the 3rd or the 4th
test match while touring the Windies in 1976.

- Sanjay.

by **Friendle** » Thu, 16 May 1991 13:44:05

In the recent series against England, Dean Jones was bowled around his legs
and only the off bail came off. Had Dino and I confused for a long time, but
the ball hit the leg stump, pushing the leg bail into the off bail and
knocking it off. And then there was that really weird dismissal of Mark Taylor
where the ball pitched outside the leg stump....

Friendless

by **Sheikh Kaisar Al** » Fri, 17 May 1991 06:35:45

Quote:

>Does anyone have information on the number of times Test batsmen have been
>dismissed by some of the more unusual ways? That is:

> Hit Wicket
> Handled The Ball
> Obstructing The Field -----> only Sir Len Hutton!
> Hit The Ball Twice
> Timed Out

by Si » Fri, 17 May 1991 09:29:13

Quote:

> Speaking of unusual dismissals, any lists of batsmen dismissed when the
> bat that slipped out of their hands was caught -- typically by the
> wicketkeeper?

> Amitava
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Amitava Banerjea

> ^^^^^^==or venus or earth or mars or saturn
> _____________________________________________________________________

In 1946-47, Len Hutton scored 37 runs in 22 minutes in what Don Bradman
called the most delightful little innings he had seen for a while.
Unfortunately, whilst playing a shot, his bat slipped out of his hands
soared gracefully over his head,and landed on his stumps.

*-- The Name is Willis, --*
*-- Andrew Willis. --*
*-- You can call me, Sir. --*

by Si » Fri, 17 May 1991 09:20:00

Quote:

> One very unique dismissal (probably the only one of its kind in
> test history) that comes to my mind is the dismissal of Madan Lal in the
> Old Trafford test of 1974. I think the bowler was Chris Old, but I'm
> not sure. Madan Lal was bowled, the unique feature of this dismissal
> being that the leg and off stumps were uprooted, whereas the middle
> stump was still upright. I remember seeing a photograph of this
> incident.

> Prasad S.Kulkarni

> (admirer of both Vishwanaths - Gundappa and Sadanand).
> Go Bangalore ! Go Karnataka ! Go India ! ;-).

The bowler was Geoff Arnold and yes it was an unusual bowled. Apparently the
ball hit off stump first, knocking it out of the ground, clipped middle stump
, pushing back at an angle of 45 degrees, and knocked leg stump out of the
ground towards the square leg umpire. Gees, I'm impressed when I hit the stumps
, let alone pulling a magic trick like that.

*-- The Name is Willis, --*
*-- Andrew Willis. --*
*-- You can call me, Sir. --*

by **ssgues..** » Wed, 22 May 1991 13:17:56

Sometimes a batsman's helmet (without a chin strap) comes off while he swings
at the ball in a hook shot, and falls on to the stumps - hit wicket. I have
seen this happen three times in Australia.

----

Curtin University of Technology, |
Perth, Western Australia. |

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