However, in the latter game, he scored 37 in the second innings, frequently driving the bowling of Miller and Fred Freer before the bat slipped from his hand and hit the wicket, ending the innings.

The most recent and one of the more bizarre hit wicket dismissals was of Sri Lanka national cricket team captain Kumar Sangakkara in the finals of the triangular ODI Compaq Cup against India at Colombo on 14 September 2009, as he attempted a shot and in the follow through his bat slipped out of his hands, flew backwards in the air and landed on the stumps.

Neither the use of a pinch-runner to replace a baserunner who represents an unearned run nor the use of a pinch-hitter to continue the turn at bat of a batter who would be out except for an error transforms a run scored by such a person or his successors on base from an unearned run to an earned run.

In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.

A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, the game ends as the winning run scores from third base on a balk.

The intent is usually clear from the context, although the term " official at bat " is sometimes used to explicitly refer to an at bat as distinguished from a plate appearance.

By the end of the game, the ball would be dark with grass, mud, and tobacco juice, and it would be misshapen and lumpy from contact with the bat.

This legend may have originated from the vampire bat, an animal endemic to the region.

If the team that batted second is substantially behind on first innings total, it may be required to bat again ( i. e., to immediately follow on from its first innings ) in the third innings of the match.

Some early sources say that this was the bat he received from Apollo, but others question the merits of this claim.

While very difficult to bowl accurately, good leg spin is considered one of the most threatening types of bowling to bat against, since the flight and sharp turn make the ball's movement extremely hard to read and the turn away from the batsman ( assuming he or she is right-handed ) is more dangerous than the turn into the batsman generated by an off spinner.

The Australians elected Dave Gregory from New South Wales as Australia ’ s first ever captain and on winning the toss he decided to bat.

During 1961 spring training, Clemente tried to modify his batting technique by using a heavier bat in order to slow the speed of his swing, following advice from Pirates ' batting coach George Sisler.

At this stage of his career, he had yet to perform consistently with bat and ball simultaneously, apart from his breakthrough series in the Caribbean.

On June 3, 2003, Sosa was ejected from a Chicago Cubs-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game in the first inning when umpires discovered he had been using a corked bat.

Williams struck out, and as he stepped from the batter's box swung his bat violently in anger.

In an interview, he said that all of his children from his second marriage had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger ; he also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew.

He picked up his famous nickname from his friend Bobby Hofman who said he resembled a Hindu yogi whenever he sat around with arms and legs crossed waiting to bat or while looking sad after a losing game.

The new altimeter used a series of high-pitched sounds like those made by a bat to measure the distance from the aircraft to the surface, which on return to the aircraft was converted to feet shown on a gauge inside the aircraft cockpit.

By doing so he avoided the possibility that the New Zealand batsman, Brian McKechnie, would score a six from the last ball to tie the match, as the bat would not be able to hit the ball high enough to score a six.

The musicians also resented Van Vliet for taking complete credit for composition and arranging when the musicians themselves pieced together most of the songs from taped fragments or impressionistic directions such as " Play it like a bat being dragged out of oil and it's trying to survive, but it's dying from asphyxiation.

He beats up Harry Doolin with a baseball bat, and moves away from Harwich with his mother, and is twice put in a juvenile detention facility.

Deegan dropped, got up, turned and, holding the bat with both hands up against his chest, began to walk slowly out to the mound.

During the over, another rising Larwood delivery knocked the bat out of Woodfull's hands.

Lecour felt that he was at a disadvantage, only using his hands to bat his opponent's fists away, rather than to punch.

" It also includes an interruption where in the video a baseball bat flies out of the hands of Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory and ends up in the front tire of a girl's bicycle, causing her to flip forward over the handlebars.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

The bat can be anything, as long as it can hit the ball and can be suitably held in the hands.

Ricci has tattoos of a lion on her right shoulder blade ( a reference to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child ), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip ( this tattoo was originally a bat ), the name " Jack " on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle.

Players sometimes get one hand up the barrel, and other times bunt with both hands at the base of the bat.

He was steeped in the game from a very early age: his father Martin was a noted grade cricketer in Adelaide who put a bat in his hands as soon as he could walk, while his maternal grandfather was the famous all-round sportsman Victor Richardson, who captained Australia at the end of a nineteen-Test career.

The wicket is put down if a bail is completely removed from the top of the stumps, or a stump is struck out of the ground by the ball, the striker's bat, the striker's person ( or by any part of his clothing or equipment becoming detached from his person ), a fielder ( with his hand or arm, and provided that the ball is held in the hand or hands so used, or in the hand of the arm so used ).

There's a scene in the manga where Meiwa's coach states that " Letting Hideo face off against high-school pitchers with an aluminium bat in his hands is almost cheating ".

In Five Children and It, the Psammead is described as having “ eyes were on long horns like a snail ’ s eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes ; it had ears like a bat ’ s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider ’ s and covered with thick soft fur ; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkey ’ s ” and whiskers like a rat.

Alternatively, when the batsman hits the ball, he can make ' runs ' by revolving the bat around themselves with both hands.

Savage would swing a bat into a hanging car tire as a regular training exercise in order to strengthen his hands and make sure he utilized his legs during swings, the technique was so effective that Herndon adopted it and used it during his own career as a baseball coach.

Major League Baseball player Moisés Alou urinates on his hands to alleviate calluses, which he claims allows him to bat without using batting gloves.

A boundary six can only be scored if the ball has made contact with the bat or the hands or gloves holding it.

The bat and hands are held well out of the way of the ball.

The batsman still has to watch the ball closely to ensure that it will not hit him or the wicket ; he also has to ensure that his bat and hands are kept out of the path of the ball so that it cannot make accidental contact and possibly lead to him being out caught.

The batsman may also swap his hands on the bat handle to make the stroke easier to execute.

alt = Wearing a blue helmet and white jersey of the Atlanta Braves, Bob Horner clutches his bat with both hands

During the over, another rising Larwood delivery knocked the bat out of Woodfull's hands.

In baseball, a foul tip is defined as " a batted ball that goes sharp directly from the bat to the catcher ’ s hands and is legally caught.

If the pitch touches the ground before reaching the batter, and the batter then swings and nicks that ball with his bat, it would be a foul tip if hit directly to the catcher's hands and legally caught.

Ranjitsinhji was particularly popular at Brighton ; Simon Wilde writes: " The crowds would stroll the outfield during intervals in play ... at a loss to explain what he did: the most disdainful flick of the wrists, and he could exasperate some of England's finest bowlers ; the most rapid sweep of the arms, and the ball was charmed to any part of the field he chose, as though he had in his hands not a bat but a wizard's wand.