Bizzare wicket| Middle stump uprooted while bails stay intact

The Mid Year Cricket Association witnessed a first of a kind dismissal in the match between Moone Valley and Strathmore Heights when Jatinder Singh was dismissed. A delivery from the Strathmore bowler sent the middle stump tumbling while the bails remained unmoved which surprised everyone on the field including the Umpire.

Moone Valley skipper Michael Ozbun expressed his bewilderment at the incident as he narrated the whole story.

He said, “I was on the boundary, I saw the stumps fly and thought ‘all right, he got bowled, it was a silly shot’. Then everybody was standing around the wickets and I didn’t know why. I went out there, saw what was going on and it was very confusing.”

After a few minutes of marveling the incident, both sides unanimously decided that Jatinder should be given out.

“We had no idea what the actual ruling on it was, but we all admired it for a few minutes,” Ozbun said.

"You probably couldn’t do that again if you tried. We weren’t sure if maybe (the stumps) were put it at a slight angle so there was just a little bit of pressure. When they were sitting on the stumps, they were in the grooves. It wasn’t like the middle of the bails were above the stumps or anything.", he added.

MYCA President Neil Daly backed up the umpires call and shared a similar experience.

“The ball had to have hit at the exact right point that the stump didn’t fly up, it went down,” he said.

“The only similar incident I had was a bail slipped down between the stumps and wedged between the stumps,” Daly said.

“It was given not out because it hadn’t completely been removed. They put the bail back on", he concluded.