Handled the Ball

[ivansneck]

You know it's going to be a bad season when you are out 2nd ball of the season "Handled the Ball" as happened yesterday to Sean Dickson of Kent vs. Leicestershire. See the video here:

http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/WATCH-Kent-batsman-Sean-Dickson-handled-ball/story-29171670-detail/story.html

According to Wisden (what fun I had trawling through the Yellow Bible!):

This was only the 61st occasion in First Class cricket ever.

This was the first time in Cahmpionship cricket since Cheteshwar Pujara also against Leicestershire in 2014 at Derby.

The first Kent player to be out this way since G. Bennett vs. Sussex at Hove in 1872.

The most common place for this to happen is Bloemfontein where 5 batsmen have been out this way - perhaps it's the altitude!!

For terminally sad here's the full list:

J. Grundy               MCC v Kent at Lord's      1857

 

G. Bennett              Kent v Sussex at Hove   1872

 

W.H. Scotton         Smokers v Non-Smokers at East Melbourne        1886-87

 

C.W. Wright           Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire at Bristol  1893

 

E. Jones                South Australia v Victoria at Melbourne    1894-95

 

A.W. Nourse          South Africans v Sussex at Hove      1907

 

E.T. Benson            MCC v Auckland at Auckland     1929-30

 

A.W. Gilbertson      Otago v Auckland at Auckland     1952-53

 

W.R. Endean           South Africa v England at Cape Town       1956-57

 

P.J. Burge               Queensland v New South Wales at Sydney        1958-59

 

Dildar Awan           Services v Lahore at Lahore  1959-60

 

M. Mehra               Railways v Delhi at Delhi        1959-60

 

Mahmood-ul-Hasan  Karachi University v Railways-Quetta at Karachi      1960-61

 

Ali Raza                 Karachi Greens v Hyderabad at Karachi    1961-62

 

Mohammad Yusuf    Rawalpindi v Peshawar at Peshawar    1962-63

 

A. Rees                  Glamorgan v Middlesex at Lord's    1965

 

Pervez Akhtar        Multan v Karachi Greens at Sahiwal    1971-72

 

Javed Mirza           Railways v Punjab at Lahore    1972-73

 

R.G. Pollock            Eastern Province v Western Province at Cape Town    1973-74

 

C.I. Dey                 Northern Transvaal v Orange Free State at Bloemfontein    1973-74

 

Nasir Valika           Karachi Whites v National Bank at Karachi        1974-75

 

Haji Yousuf            National Bank v Railways at Lahore           1974-75

 

Masood-ul-Hasan    PIA v National Bank B at Lyallpur             1975-76

 

Hanif Solangi         Hyderabad v Karachi B at Hyderabad        1977-78

 

D.K. Pearse             Natal v Western Province at Cape Town      1978-79

 

A.M.J. Hilditch       Australia v Pakistan at Perth.       1978-79

 

Musleh-ud-Din        Railways v Lahore at Lahore       1979-80

 

Jalal-ud-Din           IDBP v Habib Bank at Bahawalpur     1981-82

 

Mohsin Khan           Pakistan v Australia at Karachi         1982-83

 

D.L. Haynes            West Indies v India at Bombay           1983-84

 

K. Azad                  Delhi v Punjab at Amritsar           1983-84

 

Athar A. Khan        Allied Bank v HBFC at Sialkot     1983-84

 

A.N. Pandya           Saurashtra v Baroda at Baroda     1984-85

 

G.L. Linton              Barbados v Windward Islands at Bridgetown        1985-86

 

R.B. Gartrell           Tasmania v Victoria at Melbourne      1986-87

 

R. Nayyar               Himachal Pradesh v Punjab at Una         1988-89

 

R. Weerawardene    Moratuwa v Nomads SC at Colombo      1988-89

 

A.M. Kane              Vidarbha v Railways at Nagpur       1989-90

 

P. Bali                    Jammu and Kashmir v Services at Delhi     1991-92

 

M.J.G. Davis           Northern Transvaal B v OFS B at Bloemfontein     1991-92

 

J.T.C. Vaughan       Emerging Players v England XI at Hamilton       1991-92

 

G.A. Gooch             England v Australia at Manchester     1993

 

A.C. Waller            Mashonaland CD v Mashonaland Under-24 at Harare     1994-95

 

K.M. Krikken         Derbyshire v Indians at Derby     1996

 

A. Badenhorst       Eastern Province B v North West at Fochville   1998-99

 

S.R. Waugh            Australia v India at Chennai     2000-01

 

M.P. Vaughan         England v India at Bangalore        2001-02

 

Tushar Imran        Bangladesh A v Jamaica at Spanish Town         2001-02

 

Al Sahariar            Dhaka v Chittagong at Dhaka         2003-04

 

Junaid Zia              Rawalpindi v Lahore at Lahore        2003-04

 

D.J. Watson           Dolphins v Eagles at Bloemfontein         2004-05

 

M. Zondecki           Cape Cobras v Eagles at Bloemfontein      2006-07

 

L.N. Mosena           Free State v Limpopo at Bloemfontein      2007-08

 

W.S.A. Williams     Canterbury v Otago at Dunedin      2012-13

 

E. Lewis                 Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Islands at Trinidad     2013-14

 

C.A. Pujara             Derbyshire v Leicestershire at Derby       2014

 

S.R. Dickson           Kent v Leicestershire at Leicester         2016

 

[Elite_pie]

Am I right in thinking that if he'd kicked the ball away he wouldn't have been out?

[Chris]

I believe @Elite_pie is right, I don't know much about it but I do recall being told once about this. @super_ram do you know?

[super_ram]

1 hour ago, Elite_pie said:

Am I right in thinking that if he'd kicked the ball away he wouldn't have been out?

 

22 minutes ago, notts-joe said:

I believe @Elite_pie is right, I don't know much about it but I do recall being told once about this. @super_ram do you know?

I have a vague recollection of a batsman kicking the ball away from the stumps during a test match in the late 60's, early 70's.I can't remember who England were playing or any other details.I understand it's legal to kick the ball away but not to use your hand.

[ivansneck]

@notts-joe, you're quite right. Because he had already hit the ball he couldn't be given out LBW so he could kick the ball away. He must have been a mental abberation not to do so. He could also have used his bat just to push the ball away, but not hit it hard in case that was interpreted as 'hitting-the-ball-twice" by the umpires!

It's worth noting on the list above that there are some of the true greats of batting on there, like Steve Waugh, Graeme Pollock, Dave Nourse, Peter Burge, Graham Gooch and Desmond Haynes.

[super_ram]

1 hour ago, ivansneck said:

@notts-joe, you're quite right. Because he had already hit the ball he couldn't be given out LBW so he could kick the ball away. He must have been a mental abberation not to do so. He could also have used his bat just to push the ball away, but not hit it hard in case that was interpreted as 'hitting-the-ball-twice" by the umpires!

It's worth noting on the list above that there are some of the true greats of batting on there, like Steve Waugh, Graeme Pollock, Dave Nourse, Peter Burge, Graham Gooch and Desmond Haynes.

Don't forget Karl Krikken @ivansneck lol

[Fozzy]

I saw this on twitter and wondered what he was thinking! All he had to do was direct it away with his bat and carry on, I bet he won't make the same mistake again. I remember seeing Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan doing it in the past, Gooch's always sticks in the memory as he had scored a load and batted it away with the back of his hand. I don't think he would have been able to do anything else though in his case.