Throughout his international career, Moin had to compete with another wicket-keeper, Rashid Latif.

No member of the fielding side other than the wicket-keeper may wear gloves or external leg guards, though fielders ( in particular players fielding near to the bat ) may also wear shin protectors, groin protectors (' boxes ') and chest protectors beneath their clothing.

It was Fred Trueman's last test and Snow's Sussex teammates Ted Dexter and wicket-keeper Jim Parks were also in the side.

The wicket-keeper ( also spelt wicketkeeper and often shortened to keeper ) in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike.

The wicket-keeper may also wear a helmet with a mesh face guard to help protect from injury.

Unusually for a wicket-keeper, he also bowled over 200 overs, taking 24 first-class wickets with a bowling average of 33. 37.

Langer is also a solid gully fielder, and was very occasionally the wicket-keeper for the Australian one-day team.

He was also a league cricketer, appearing as a wicket-keeper and batsman for various Oldham clubs in the Saddleworth League including Delph & Dobcross, Moorside and also East Lancashire Paper Mill in Radcliffe, Bury.

Ranatunga's weight was also notable for being grossly excessive, and gave rise to an incident during a game played in humid conditions when he called for a runner, claiming that he had " sprained something "; opposition ( Australian ) wicket-keeper Ian Healy responded that he could not get a runner for being " an overweight, unfit, fat cunt ", a comment picked up by the stump microphones and broadcast on television.

He was also a useful League cricketer and is presently in the Lancashire Over 50s squad as a wicket-keeper / batsman.

He also took 1, 168 dismissals as a bowler, and over 800 catches as a fielder ( and one stumping, as a stand-in wicket-keeper ).

Russell however was a great wicket-keeper and could also be an unorthodox but resolute lower-order batsman.

Although primarily a wicket-keeper, Hegg was also a handy lower-order batsman, and made several first-class hundreds.

Compton also played cricket for Middlesex, playing as wicket-keeper from 1938 to 1956.

He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries.

He also filled in very competently as wicket-keeper for Les Ames when the latter was injured at Lord's.

He is also credited with many stumpings, although whether he was ever a regular wicket-keeper remains unclear ..

Arthur Wood, the Yorkshire wicket-keeper, commented during the over: " Go on, Hedley, you have him in two minds.

England wicket-keeper Les Ames, himself a top-class batsman, commented on their running together between the wickets by emphasising the placement of the stroke, which was so correct that they could " just play and run ".

Controversially, the Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh and opening bowler Dennis Lillee both placed bets on England to win, later claiming that 500 – 1 were silly ( if not incredible ) odds on any two-horse race.

Law 41. 5 states " At the instant of the bowler's delivery there shall not be more than two fielders, other than the wicket-keeper, behind the popping crease on the on side ," commonly referred to as being " behind square leg ".

Since there are only 11 players on a team, one of whom is the bowler, and usually another as the wicket-keeper, at most nine other fielding positions can be used at any given time.

New Zealand had already slumped to 28-4 when Snow was brought on, but he got two wickets before lunch, the New Zealand captain John Reid caught behind by Parks and the wicket-keeper Artie Dick clean bowled.

It requires co-operation between a bowler and wicket-keeper: the bowler must induce the batsman to move out of his ground, and the wicket-keeper must catch and break the wicket before the batsman realises he has missed the ball and makes his ground, i. e. places the bat or part of his body on the ground back behind the popping crease.

A fielder in the equivalent position on the on side of the wicket-keeper is known as a leg slip ; this is considerably less common than the off-side slip, and for a team to employ more than one leg slip is highly unusual.

Lamba was fielding at forward short-leg without wearing a helmet when a ball struck by batsman Mehrab Hossain hit him hard on the head and rebounded to wicket-keeper Khaled Mashud.

Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire ( playing for Whitehaven ), in the face in 1993.

His trademarks included always keeping his shirt collar turned up to protect him from the sun ; his sleeves rolled down to safeguard his elbows when diving ; and, after a tip from former Northamptonshire and England wicket-keeper Keith Andrew, warming his hands with hot water before going on the field.

The bowling creases lie 22 yards ( 66 feet or 20. 012 m ) apart and mark the ends of the pitch, and so may be used to determine whether there is a no ball because a fielder has encroached on the pitch or the wicket-keeper has moved in front of the wicket before they are permitted to do so.

If the wicket-keeper misses the ball and it travels all the way to the boundary, the batting team immediately scores five wides, similarly as if the ball had been hit to the boundary for a four on a no ball.

With England on course for victory Gatting attempted a reverse sweep off the first delivery bowled by Border, top-edged the ball and was caught by wicket-keeper Greg Dyer.

The fieldsman is credited in the statistics with a dismissal if he takes a catch or a stumping ( for a stumping this will necessarily be the wicket-keeper ), and may be credited on scorecards for a run-out ( although a run-out will not be credited to a player's statistics ).

A more recent example of a comic hit-wicket dismissal was during the Headingley Test match in the 2006 test series between England and Pakistan, when Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq missed a sweep against Monty Panesar, was hit in the midriff by the ball, lost his balance and collapsed on to his stumps ( and nearly into wicket-keeper Chris Read ).

If the striker steps in front of the crease to play the ball, leaving no part of his anatomy or the bat on the ground behind the crease, and the wicket-keeper is able to remove the bails from the wicket with the ball, then the striker is out.

Kamran Akmal (; born 13 January 1982 ) is a Pakistani cricketer who has played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for Pakistan as a wicket-keeper.

There were angry crowd scenes after the Australian captain Bill Woodfull and wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield were hit by bouncers.

In 2007 the club celebrated its centenary year, and marked the occasion by inviting the former England wicket-keeper turned artist Jack Russell to visit the ground and paint a landscape of the pitch and clubhouse.

One of the fielding team ( such as the wicket-keeper himself ) must appeal for the wicket by asking the umpire.

Described at the time by Test wicket-keeper Rod Marsh as " a technically perfect batsman ", the Perth press speculated he might even make his first-class cricket debut later that season.

For example, Continuous Kwik Cricket can be played by two groups of 10 or 12, with each batting for a set period of time, the Lord's Game can be played by two groups of four or five, and Pairs Kwik Cricket works for groups of 8, each playing as a pair and rotating the roles ( batsmen ; bowler and wicket-keeper ; leg side and off side fielders ).

This normally prevents the scoring of runs because the batsmen will be unable to complete a run before being stumped or run out by the wicket-keeper.

* The ball passes the batsman, is gathered by the wicket-keeper, and the batsmen obviously decline to attempt to take runs.

In June he took the first nine wickets to fall in the first innings against Essex, ending with 9-138 ; had wicket-keeper Steven Davies not dropped a catch offered by last man Darren Gough he would have become the first bowler ever to take all ten for the county.

A complacent or poorly skilled batsman playing for the expected spin can be taken by surprise and get out bowled or lbw, or edge the ball with the outside edge of the bat to offer a catch to the wicket-keeper or slip fielders.

He was Zimbabwe's wicket-keeper for more than 10 years and statistically by far the finest batsman the country has fielded.

The team was further enhanced by A. G. Steel – an amateur considered second only to W. G. Grace as the country's best all rounder – Johnny Briggs – a professional from Sutton-in-Ashfield and the only player to score 10, 000 runs and take 1, 000 wickets for Lancashire – and wicket-keeper Dick Pilling – who in 1891 was rated by Wisden as the second-best wicket-keeper in the world behind Jack Blackham.

" Caught behind " ( an unofficial term ) indicates that a player was caught by the wicket-keeper, or less commonly by the slips.