That strange caught behind

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For all those asking...
This match was played for charity in 2007. The rules for this match was that if a batsman leaves two balls, which are playable, without playing a shot in the same over, the umpire can declare you out. And that's what happened in this case! pic.twitter.com/iZA1C3sT72

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) November 13, 2017

 

Steven Lynch probably has an answer

 

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There is a video doing the rounds of a strange dismissal in a match in England where the batsman is given out caught behind despite clearly missing the ball. Can you explain what happened? asked Suyash Joshi from India
The incident you're referring to happened during Surrey's match against Leeds/Bradford UCCE at The Oval in 2007. The batsman, Tom Merilaht, misses a ball from Surrey's Mohammad Akram, but is given out and marches smartly off. One theory has it that he had actually been out (hit-wicket) to the last ball of the previous over, but the umpire didn't notice and called "Over". However, I don't think this holds water as the fielding side could still have appealed if that was the case. Another idea floated was that it was a charity game in which you weren't allowed to leave two successive balls - but this was a proper first-class match. Martin Briggs, an assiduous researcher - and umpire - found some tweets about the incident online. Rikki Clarke, who was captaining Surrey in that game, said "there was a noise and two people appealed - was given out, but clearly a shocker". Merilaht himself joked: "I was on for Lara's 501 that innings too - if it was a 20-day game " ESPNcricinfo's own Jarrod Kimber asked Merilaht why he walked off so quickly, and he admitted, "I haven't since!"

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21494533/caught-touching-ball

I had read about this dismissal few years back on fb. There was discussion about hit wicket only then. Anyway, it seems that Mohandas got it wrong.

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[beetle]

Yuvraj had also posted the same clip and given the same explanation that it was charity match and the rule was that you could not leave two balls without playing a shot.

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1 hour ago, beetle said:

Yuvraj had also posted the same clip and given the same explanation that it was charity match and the rule was that you could not leave two balls without playing a shot.

Yuvi didn't give that explanation, I guess.

 

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13 hours ago, Shaz1 said:

Here’s what Akram had to say.

 

In an exclusive interview with Daily Express, Akram revealed: “The umpire in that game was inexperienced and had just turned down two vociferous appeals that put him under pressure. Then that delivery was nowhere near the bat and we didn’t appeal either, except for a halfhearted try by the slip fielder. Much to our surprise, he gave him out even though there was no chance in hell he had nicked it.”

The now Peshawar Zalmi head coach revealed his shock at the decision. “I was actually going back to bowl the next ball when the finger got raised.Surprisingly, the batsman didn’t protest either and promptly accepted the[ridiculous] decision.”

Unfair it may have been, but Akram and co couldn’t care less as he recalled: “We needed that wicket so we celebrated regardless of whether we deserved it or not. Then when we went back to the dressing room and saw the replay we were all in stiches.”

 

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1559319/7-akram-discusses-crickets-bizarre-umpiring-decision/

 

 

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