Top 10 hilarious dismissals in cricket history

As a cricketer, one of the primary coaching advices that you’ll get is to put a price on your wicket while you are in the middle. You’d be taught to persevere, sweat out, manipulate the gaps and do whatever you could to keep the bowlers at bay. Needless to say, you’d be inclined to adhere to those words as often as you can.Therefore, by extended logic, it may not be overly optimistic to hope that the ‘finished products’ who represent their country would not throw away their wickets in the big stage. But lo and behold, for I’ve compiled a list of ten dismissals in international cricket in recent years that are so ridiculous that they are actually hilarious.

#1 Tumbling on slippery ground

Pakistan were cruising at 451/5 trailing England by 64 runs when skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq decided to play the joker and attempt the unforeseen. As he left the crease for the pavilion, the TV cameras zoomed in on the disgusted face of Coach Bob Woolmer.

The events were pretty surreal - Inzamam attempts a lavish sweep off Monty Panesar and misses horribly as the ball ricochets off his pads after he completes a 180 degrees rotation on his right knee. And it doesn’t end there. Inzamam loses his balance entirely and tumbles on his castles, but not before managing a hilarious display of unsuccessful acrobatics.