Given out for obstruction

England’s Jason Roy given out ‘Obstructing the field’, invoking Law 37, in the match against South Africa is only the eighth of its kind in international cricket. Len Hutton, Mohinder Amarnath, Rameez Raja, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafiz, Anwar Ali and Ben Stokes are the others who have got out this way. While Hutton was dismissed so in a Test match and Roy in a T20 International, the other six have been given out in ODIs. The other rare mode of getting out ‘Timed out’ (Law 31) — if a batsman fails to take guard within three minutes — has not been used until now in international cricket.

A.V. Narayanan,

Tiruchi