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13/12/2007

You can be given out for handling the ball

If a batter is worried the ball will roll back on to the stumps after playing a shot, they can knock the ball away with the bat, feet or pads.

But if they use their hands they can be given out handled the ball.

Again this is another type of dismissal you see rarely - but it does happen.

England captain Michael Vaughan has been dismissed this way.

And former England captain Graham Gooch is another who has been given his marching orders for handling the ball.

When a batter picks the ball up off the pitch to pass the ball back to the fielding side though, this is fine.



By Jim Downing




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