Eleven ways of being out
 1 Bowled – when a bowler's delivery hits the stumps. Also includes 'played on' when the ball goes from bat onto stumps. A bail must be dislodged.
 2 Caught – you can be out caught off the bat or the hand/glove if it was in contact with the bat when hit.
 3 Leg Before Wicket – when the ball hits the leg in front of the stumps and would have gone on to hit them [see Red Zone/LBW section for further explanation].
 4 Stumped – a batsman is out stumped when if he leaves the crease in the process of playing a shot and the bails are removed before he gets back.
 5 Run out – a batsman is run out if the wickets are broken before he has completed the run by crossing the popping crease.
 6 Handled ball – a rare dismissal where the batsman uses his hand (when it is no longer holding the bat) to stop the ball rolling or bouncing back on to his stumps. It is usually an instinctive reaction.
7 Hit wicket – this occurs when the bat (or any part of the batsman's body) disturb the stumps and one or both of the bails fall off.
8 Hit the ball twice – when a batsman attempts to gain an unfair advantage by striking the ball twice.
9 Obstructing the field – this can occur when a batsman prevents a throw reaching the wicket-keeper by using his bat or body, or when he stops a fielder taking a catch by deliberately getting in the way.
10 Timed out – officially, if a new batsman hasn't arrived in the middle within three minutes of the last wicket, the fielding side can appeal. But on the rare occasion that it has happened in Test cricket there has been no appeal.
11 Retired out – a batsman can declare his innings over if he's exhausted or wants to give other players a chance. But this can only really happens in warm-up games and is unlikely to occur in Test cricket.
12 Jul, 2001
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