Strike batsman helps opposition dismiss his partner in a dumbfounding way

Cricket has been described as a game of uncertainties and that goes for the types of ways in which batsmen can be dismissed as well. Over the years, the record books of cricket are filled with amazing instances when batsmen got out in weird ways. Obstructing the field, hitting your own wickets, getting timed out are just some examples of weird dismissals in the game. The MCC rules book for cricket describes the ways of dismissing a batsman in full details and hence batsmen are aware of the ways they can get out and avoid doing something that sends them back to the pavilion.

Getting out due to the assistance of non-striker

One of the most unfortunate ways to get out is when your own teammate and partner at the other end helps the opposition in plotting your dismissal. Such an example was seen recently in a match between New Zealand women’s cricket team and Australia’s Governor General XI in Drummoyne Oval.

Striker Katie Perkins was going great guns when she drove a delivery from Katie Grahams straight down the ground and the ball was seemingly going past the non-striker Katey Martin. However, in a strange case of extremely bad luck, the ball hit Martin’s bat and ballooned up in the air, only for Graham to catch it and send Perkins back to the pavilion. Martins and fielding side were left in a state of disbelief.

In a video shared on popular site Reddit.com, a local tennis match is being played in which the non-striker had to go back to the hut after being run out in one of the most bizarre ways possible. It all began when the striker defended a fuller-length delivery and the ball fell near him. In the meantime, his partner, on the other end sensed an opportunity to steal a single and took off straight away.

The batsman on strike was unaware of his partner coming halfway down the pitch for the run and picked up the ball and lobbed it straight to the bowler, in a gesture of sportsmanship. However, the gesture proved costly for his partner, who was still out of his crease and by the time, he turned back and tried to reach the crease, the bowler had whipped the bails off and the umpire gave him out.

The non-striker is seen giving an earful to the batsman on strike, all the while he tries to gauze what just happened.

Here is the video of the dismissal:

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