If a batter uses his hand to touch the ball and the umpire feels the ball would have hit the stumps, it is called handling the ball. Now it is part of obstructing the field, but it remains a unique method of being dismissed. This fashion of getting somebody out first ever occurred in international cricket in 1957 and the victim was South Africa's Russell Endean in a Test vs England. AFP A batter can be given out if he is touching the ball with one or both of his hands unless it was to