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How to Get Out in Cricket

There are 10 ways that you can get out. But the question is, do you know them all?
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Quiz by Akasnah
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Last updated: March 19, 2020
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First submittedJanuary 6, 2013
Times taken23,951
Average score60.0%
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Common
Law
Way to Get Out
32
Bowled
33
Caught
36
Leg before wicket
38
Run out
39
Stumped
Uncommon
Law
Way to Get Out
25.4
Retired
34
Hit the ball twice
35
Hit wicket
37
Obstructing the field
40
Timed out
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Level 57
Jan 26, 2014
forgot timed
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Level 15
Feb 1, 2014
i agree, handling should be allowed, missed hit wicket though!
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Level 12
Mar 13, 2014
Thank you for all your comments regarding me adding words such as Handling in the options. The change has now been made :)
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Level 77
Oct 31, 2014
This should be a featured quiz. Thanks for making this one.
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Level 39
Feb 2, 2015
what about retired out?
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Level 22
May 11, 2016
You're not out when you retire. If you were, it would affect your batting average. It comes up as a not out, retired.
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Level 15
Mar 30, 2018
Retired out is when you retire with telling the umpire so you're actually out. You cannot come back in.
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Level 26
Oct 17, 2018
it should not be because you can still come back
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Level 38
Dec 24, 2018
Retired out is a thing in the rules - and it should be included.

Basically you retire without permission from the umpires (who only give permission for injury) and the opposing captain. It's happened in international cricket.

It is semi-common for unofficial warm-up games to have lots of retired not-outs, but that's because the opposition captain allows it.

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Level 72
Mar 11, 2020
Not sure I agree on retired. The other nine are all methods whereby the other team get you out, or force you into making a mistake that gets you out. Retired is something you do voluntarily. It shouldn’t be included IMO.
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Level 79
Mar 15, 2020
There is a difference between retired hurt and retired out.

Law 25 clearly states this difference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retired_(cricket)

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Level 67
Mar 23, 2020
@Algernon - how does an opponent make you "time out"?
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Level 72
Nov 26, 2021
Touche!
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Level 80
Nov 12, 2016
Should be a featured quiz
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2019
Forgot timed dammit
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Level 76
Mar 11, 2020
Nice! Now we have 3 cricket featured quizzes on this site, slightly behind baseball.
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Level 76
Mar 12, 2020
And I did just as well on this quiz as I do on the Baseball quizzes! 0%!

...Why do I even bother?

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Level 90
Mar 11, 2020
Good quiz. Could you add the statistics of the percentage of people that have gotten out by each method at test level please.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2020
I'll start: Timed out - 0%. Pretty sure "retired out" is a zero, and don't think there's been a hit the ball twice either ;-).
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Level 66
Mar 23, 2020
Two Sri Lankans were retired out in the same test, but they're the only two. cricinfo has a list of unusual dismissals.
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Level 74
Mar 24, 2020
good call :-)
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
Can only remember Graham Gooch being out for handling the ball, but have a feeling there were one or two other instances.
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Level 84
Mar 12, 2020
What about Mankading? Or does that count as a runout?
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Level 71
Mar 12, 2020
It is run out.
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Level 71
Mar 12, 2020
Could not get 'Timed out'....... tried 'out of time'....... slow to wicket ........... non appearance at wicket ..... etc. etc.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2020
handled the ball needs to be there - it is different from obstructing the field (which comes up when you type handled). Also "hit" shouldn't really bring up hit the ball twice (when I was typing it in for hit wicket).

Don't think retired out should *really* be there. Unless the laws have changed recently, it's not one of the 10 ways of getting out

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Level 83
Mar 23, 2020
Not anymore, it isn't. They made 'handling the ball' and 'obstructing the field' part of the same law.
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Level 74
Mar 24, 2020
What what what???!!! Scandal! Don't f--k with the laws, man!
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Level 90
Mar 19, 2020
Handle/handled/handling the ball are not currently (but should be) accepted.
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Level ∞
Mar 19, 2020
Handle/handled would have worked. Handling will work now.
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Level 60
Mar 23, 2020
Handle and handled did not work for me
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Level 74
Mar 23, 2020
As an American, this quiz was mainly me taking what little I know about cricket and trying to guess what they call things. Only got 4/10, but could have guessed 2 or 3 more if I could have figured out the proper terms.
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Level 72
Mar 23, 2020
Oh dear, thought I was into cricket, yet forgot to say "Run out". dear me, better finish my coffee. But also didn't get "hit wicket", even having said "Hit stumps" - should have persevered with finding the precise words I guess.
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Level 74
Mar 23, 2020
How about when you step on your wicket?
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Level 63
Mar 23, 2020
i think that is hit wicket
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Level 84
Mar 23, 2020
Blind guessing got me 2 of 10. But good grief, I think I know more about 13th century Baltic mail delivery systems than cricket. Had a friend explain it to me once, but my "dumb" button just seems to get stuck in the "ON" position.

I do love watching highlights of some of the spectacular catches, though.

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Level 82
Mar 23, 2020
given how long these games go on I tried death from old age and boredom. those didn't get me any.
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Level 57
Oct 7, 2021
Wow. That's hilarious. You should be in entertainment.
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Level 80
Mar 27, 2020
I actually own the wicket that Ian Botham knocked the bails from during one of the most unusual dismissals in history. Worth a listen to the commentary. Beefy just couldn't get his leg over. It's all signed by Aggers, Beefy and Johnners.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/for-the-love-of-laughter-a7187771.html

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Level 75
May 18, 2020
Handling the ball is different to obstructing the field.
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Level 53
Jan 27, 2021
They're part of the same law now, they changed it.
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Level 56
Jan 25, 2021
Well you learn a new thing. I'd never heard of "timed out".
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Level 78
Nov 30, 2021
Cricket is simple. Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls 'hotbox'. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.
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Level 64
Feb 23, 2022
I got hit the ball twice by guessing double play

ok then

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Level 24
Jul 5, 2022
it's funny how I have forgotten LBW and Stumping.