Can you name the ways to get 'out' in Cricket?

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Cricket Outs Quiz

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Published: June 18th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 46,478

Tags: Cricket Quizzes, law

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	Kicking222:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:32 GMT	1 point
	All I can say is: Brits and Australians, have a great time with this one.

	[Deleted]:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	-2 points
	I tried, but I have no clue on any of the cricket rules.

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	DerKomissar:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	6 points
	I'm American and I am very proud to say that i got one on a wild guess. I wonder what 'obstructing the field' means, though.

	SammyG:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT	4 points
	I started naming ways to get out in baseball and got one. Hooray?

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	Kindred:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	28 points
	the99: Jun 18th, 2009 at 09:10 GMT 1 point "Wicket" should count for hit wicket. No it shouldn't. Since a wicket is any form of dismissal and hit wicket is incredibly rare. Wicket would make more sense for bowled.

	oldkent:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	5 points
	Another rare form of dismissal is retiring which if you tried is a bonus answer: wonder why as it is the batsman's own choice

	oldkent:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:07 GMT	14 points
	DerKomissar by obstructing the field they mean that the batsman obstructs the fielders by blocking them, pushing them or making physical contact with to obstruct the other team.

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	Carlos:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT	6 points
	Got 8 out of 10, missed obstructing the fielder and double hit. Suprised handled ball isn't ahead of timed out, it happens more often. Great quiz though. Bring on the Aussie Rules teams quiz now, seems like every quiz lately has been very, very US centric. Which, since it's a US run site, I'm not suprised or upset about.

	zertrudetrout:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT	9 points
	@Alex Murph I think you'll find that bowled, caught, stumpted, lbw and run out are all very common indeed, the rest may well be for people that like cricket. Secondly, can this quiz be renamed "Cricket methods of dismissal" as wickets are not generally known by the vulgar Americanism "outs" in cricket.

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	milkmeister:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	1 point
	@Niques: It's very unusual, only happened once in the entire history of Test match cricket. It would be something like stopping the fielding team from making a catch or a run out.

	LightningWombat:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 07:04 GMT	-2 points
	4 on semi-random guessing...a ways to get out in baseball may be more difficult than it sounds too.

	Kiribati:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 07:42 GMT	4 points
	10/10 finally a quiz I can excell at!!!

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 07:43 GMT	1 point
	For more info check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_(cricket)

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	peanut4:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	6 points
	@old kent: a batsman can either retire out or retire injured, which is not out. The former normally occurs in friendly or warm-up matches but goes down on the batsman's averages as being out hence is strictly a wicket I suppose. If he retires injured, the batsman can actually come back in later in an innings so is not a wicket.

	Mik:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 09:17 GMT	2 points
	George Smith? You mean Graeme Smith, and seen as how I'm South Africa, I got 10/10 =D

	Stanley484:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 09:55 GMT	9 points
	More Football/Cricket please! :D

	tkeene:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 10:47 GMT	6 points
	Why does "Hit twice" not count for "hit the ball twice"?

	HalfWelsh:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 11:25 GMT	3 points
	There does need to be more leeway on ones like handled the ball and obstructing the field as it does not accept "handling" or "obstruct the field"

	AussieJono:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 12:41 GMT	2 points
	Quite easy really, but then I am an Australian who has also lived in England, South Africa and Zimbabwe and have therefore known the LAWS (not rules) of cricket for as long as I can remember.

	upa:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 12:46 GMT	3 points
	10/10 but then again i am indian

	davebesag:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 13:06 GMT	-2 points
	Got them in 35 seconds but didn't think of the bonus answer.

	joe_in_indy:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 13:31 GMT	4 points
	This proud American got five, mainly by thinking of terms I've heard about cricket during the Sky Sports News re-broadcasts on Fox Soccer Channel. By the way, "stumped" is perfect for this tough sporcle quiz.

	PatrickH:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 14:09 GMT	2 points
	I was trying to get fielder interference to work for the obstruction one. Guess I've been watching more baseball than cricket these days.

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	DerekH:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	4 points
	8 and a half - I tried 'handle the ball' and 'handling ball', and never heard of 'timed out'. Ah well, not bad for a Scot - world cricket-wise, we're roughly on a par with Ireland and the Netherlands (although I believe we're still just ahead of the US ;-)...)

	Uhlan:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 15:12 GMT	-4 points
	'Timed' or 'time' maybe ought to work for 'Timed out' since the 'out' bit is pretty obvious. Ps anyone know if it has ever been given, first class or not?

	inserthandlehere:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 15:28 GMT	-1 points
	6 plus the bonus for me!

	cressida:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 15:33 GMT	0 points
	woohoo 10/10! more cricket quizzes please!

	magicbadger:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	2 points
	@ Ben: I believe only four times in first class cricket, and never in a Test match! All four were relatively recent; guess in the past players were too 'gentlemanly' to appeal for timed out...

	tozzy:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 19:03 GMT	-1 points
	i got 7/10. missed obstructing because put 'obstuced the play' and missed timed out and handled the ball.