Modes of Dismissals in Cricket
1.Bowled
A mode of dismissal when a bowler bowls a delivery and the batter whether he hits the ball or not and that ball goes on to the stumps behind the striking batter resulting in the bails coming off is termed as bowled. However, a batter cannot get out bowled off a front-foot no-ball.
2. Leg before Wicket (lbw)
When a bowler bowls a delivery and it hits the pads of the batter in line with the stumps in such a way that the ball would've hit the stumps had the batter not standing in between is termed a leg before wicket more popularly known as an lbw.
A batter cannot be given Out if the ball pitches outside the line of leg-stump or hits the batter in such a way that the impact is outside the line of stumps while the batter is trying to play a shot whether/not if it hits the stumps afterwards had the batter not standing there. However, he can be still given out if he decides to leave a ball that pitches anywhere except outside the line of leg stump and impacts outside the line of stumps but predicted to hit the stumps.
For an lbw decision to be given in favour of either fielding team or batting team, the bowler and the fielders on the field together needs to shout "HOWZAT" or "OUT". This act or shouting is known as appealing/appeal.
3. Caught
If a batter hits a shot in the air and the ball lands into the hands of fielder without the ball coming in contact with the ground it results in a caught dismissal. Even if the ball takes the edge of the bat or hits the glove that is in contact with the bat and flies straight to the fielder it is termed as a caught.
Any catch taken off a no-ball cannot result in a wicket. Also dismissals like caught by the wicket-keeper or bat-pad edge to a close-in fielder are hard to judge and hence it requires an appeal from the fielding side for claiming the dismissal of the batter.
4. Caught & bowled
Caught & bowled dismissal is a mode of caught dismissal wherein a bowler who bowls the delivery himself/herself takes the catch to dismiss a batter.
5. Run-Out
When the batter plays the ball and both the striker and non-striker sets off for a run and in the process any one of them for whatever possible reasons; fails to reach the crease at their respective end and the fielder takes off the bails with the ball in his hands, it results in a run-out.
In case, if the fielder knocks off the bails before the ball reaches to him, then he has to uproot the stumps with the the ball in his hands to run the batter out.
It doesn't matter if it's a no-ball or a wide ball, the batter could still be dismissed as a run-out.
6. Stumped Out
Sometimes, the wicket-keeper stands right behind the stumps in case slower bowlers are bowling. In that case if the batter leaves his crease while facing a delivery or playing a shot and eventually misses the ball, the wicket-keeper can knock off the bails and have the batter out stumped!!
A batsman can be stumped even off a wide ball but not off a no-ball.
7. Timed Out
There is a fixed time frame given to the batters and they need to arrive at the playing area in this time period after the previous batter was dismissed. And if they fail to do so, they can be given out timed-out.
So far there have been no instances of timed-out in professional Cricket.
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