The Strangest Ways to Get Out in Test Cricket

In almost 150 years of Test cricket, 98% of batters have been out the same five ways. This is the other 2%: the captain who fell on his stumps, the opener given out for politely handing the ball back, two centurions retired by their own captain, and two laws that have never once been used in a Test. 0:00 Intro 0:42 #6 Hit wicket 1:16 #5 The Mankad 2:11 The Perth revenge 2:46 #4 Handled the ball 3:34 Waugh and Vaughan 4:28 #3 Obstructing the field 5:23 #2 Retired out 6:05 #1 Never: timed out 7:02 #1 Never: hit the ball twice 7:29 How rare is rare? Who had it worst: Hilditch, Vaughan or Ganguly? Tell us in the comments. Previously on Fine Margins: 19 Wickets in One Test: The 12 Greatest Bowling Performances Ever Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons, edited): Inzamam-ul-Haq – paddynapper, CC BY-SA 2.0 Monty Panesar – Blnguyen, CC BY-SA 3.0 Andrew Hilditch – YellowMonkey/Blnguyen, CC BY-SA 4.0 Graham Gooch – Gwynne Mack, CC BY-SA 3.0 Merv Hughes – Nic Redhead, CC BY-SA 2.0 Shane Warne – Tourism Victoria, CC BY 2.0 Harbhajan Singh – Pulkit Sinha, CC BY-SA 2.0 Mushfiqur Rahim – Rasi56, CC BY-SA 4.0 Marvan Atapattu – Nazly Ahmed, CC BY-SA 2.0 Mahela Jayawardene – paddynapper, CC BY-SA 2.0 Sanath Jayasuriya – TonyPatterson, CC BY 2.0 Sourav Ganguly – Hashir Milhan (crop: Legolas21), CC BY 3.0 Angelo Mathews – paddynapper, CC BY-SA 2.0 Desmond Haynes – NAPARAZZI, CC BY-SA 2.0 Vinoo Mankad 1996 stamp – India Post, Government of India, GODL-India Headingley – John Sutton, CC BY-SA 2.0 WACA Ground – Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0 Old Trafford – Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0 Chepauk – Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Oval – Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0 Sher-e-Bangla Stadium – Ranadipam Basu, CC BY-SA 3.0 Chinnaswamy Stadium – Raghavan2010, CC0 Other photos: public domain Map data: Natural Earth (public domain) #cricket #testcricket #cricketrecords