Hit Wicket: Watch Those Stumps!

Описание: Hit wicket is one of the more unusual ways that a batter can be given out. A batter is given out hit wicket if, while a ball is in play, they dislodge the bails off the stumps with their body or bat.

This can occur when the batter is preparing to receive a delivery, as they are receiving the delivery, while playing the ball, or when setting up for their first run.

However, a batter is not out hit wicket, if they break their wicket while running, except when setting off for their first run or when trying to avoid being run out or stumped.

There have been some strange hit wicket dismissals in test cricket. A couple of these have occurred when the batter had their helmet dislodged and landed onto the stumps. Two famous examples are New Zealand’s Adam Parore and England’s Kevin Pietersen

Inzamam-ul-Haq of Pakistan, was out hit wicket after losing his balance and toppling onto his stumps. The Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara once lost grip of his bat and watched in horror as it proceeded to land on the stumps.

Many other batters have either smashed the stumps with the bat in their follow through or have trod on the stumps while playing a rising delivery on the backfoot.

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