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Handled the ball

There have been 63 instances in first-class cricket. The most recent are:
Player
GA Gooch England v Australia Manchester1993
AC Waller Mashonaland CD v Mashonaland Under-24 Harare1994-95
KM Krikken Derbyshire v Indians Derby1996
A Badenhorst Eastern Province B v North West Fochville1998-99
SR Waugh Australia v India Chennai2000-01
MP Vaughan England v India Bangalore2001-02
Tushar Imran Bangladesh A v Jamaica Spanish Town2001-2002
Al Sahariar Dhaka v Chittagong Dhaka2003-04
Junaid Zia Rawalpindi v Lahore Lahore2003-04
DJ Watson Dolphins v Eagles Bloemfontein2004-05
M Zondecki Cape Cobras v Eagles Bloemfontein2006-07
LN Mosena Free State v Limpopo Bloemfontein2006-07
WSA Williams Canterbury v Otago Dunedin2012-13
E Lewis Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Islands Trinidad2013-14
CA Pujara Derbyshire v Leicestershire Derby2014
I Khan Dolphins v Lions Johannesburg2014-15
K Lesporis Windward Islands v Barbados Bridgetown2015-16
SR Dickson Kent v Leicestershire Leicester2016
Zubayr Hamza Cape Cobras v Knights Bloemfontein2016-17

Showing 19 records

Obstructing the Field

There have been 26 instances in first-class cricket. T Straw of Worcestershire was given out for obstruction v Warwickshire in both 1899 and 1901. The most recent are:
Player
HR Wasu Vidarbha v Rajasthan Akola1984-85
Khalid Javed Railways v LahoreLahore1985-86
C Binduhewa Singha SC v Sinhalese SC Colombo1990-91
SJ Kalyani Bengal v Orissa Calcutta1994-95
RP Rupasinghe Rio v Kurunegala Youth Colombo2001-02
KNS Fernando Lankan v Army Welisara2006-07
HR Jadhav Baroda v Uttar Pradesh Baroda2006-07
Riaz Kail Abbottabad v Quetta Abbottabad2009-10
MR Ramprakash Gloucestershire v Surrey Cheltenham2011
ZE Surkari Afghanistan v Canada King City (NW)2011
Nasir Ahmadzai Afghanistan v Zimbabwe A Harare2014-15
WE Bell Northern Cape v Border Kimberley2015-16
Jaahid Ali Pakistan A v Zimbabwe A Bulawayo2016-17
Rashid Zadran Mis Ainak Region v Band-e-Amir Region Kabul2017
Ghamai Zadran Mis Ainak Region v Boost Region Amanullah2017
Zia-ur-Rehman Mis Ainak Region v Amo Region Khost2017/18
Ryan Burl Rising Stars v Mashonaland Eagles Harare2017/18
Khanya Cotani North West v Free State Bloemfontein2018/19
TA Blundell Wellington v Otago Wellington2020-21
Shimron Hetmyer Guyana v Leeward Islands Port of Spain2021/22
Rahul Gunasekera Nugegoda Sports Welfare Club v Sri Lanka Navy SC Moratuwa2022
Louis Kimber Leicestershire v Gloucestershire Bristol2023
Mushfiqur Rahim Bangladesh v New Zealand Mirpur2023/24
Dalubhle Mboyi Matabeleland Tuskers v Mountaineers Harare2023/24
Jaskirat Singh Meghalaya v Mizoram Anand2023/24

Showing 25 records

Hit the ball twice

There have been 21 instances in first-class cricket. The last occurrence in England involved JH King of Leicestershire v Surrey at The Oval in 1906 . The most recent are:
Player
Shahid Pervez Jammu and Kashmir v Punjab Srinagar1986-87
Ali Naqvi PNSC v National Bank Faisalabad1998-99
A George Tamil Nadu v Maharashtra Pune1998-99
Maqsood Raza Lahore Division v PNSC Sheikhupura1999-2000
D Mahajan Jammu and Kashmir v Bihar Jammu2005-06
Ikram Alikhil Speen Ghar Region v Amo Region Kandahar2021/22

Timed Out

There have been seven instances in first-class cricket:
Player
A Jordaan Eastern Provice v Transvaal Port Elizabeth1987-88
H Yadav Tripura v Orissa Cuttack1997-98
VC Drakes Border v Free State East London2002-03
AJ Harris Nottinghamshire v Durham UCCE Nottingham2003
RA Austin Windward Islands v Combined Campuses and Colleges St Vincent2013-14
C Kunje Matabeleland Tuskers v Mountaineers Bulawayo2017-18
Saud Shakeel State Bank of Pakistan v Pakistan Television Rawalpindi2024-25