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There’s more than ten ways to get out in cricket, including some you’ve never seen-by Roar Guru Starcy’s been struggling to get the ball to talk. (AFP, Ian Kington) Source:Theroar On Friday night, ten minutes after Australia had been dismissed, the umpires and the Aussies were on the field, but the Pakistani batsmen were nowhere to be seen. So a radio broadcaster asked the question, “Can you be timed out before a ball has been bowled?” The answer of course was no. That’s not how timed out works. And no sooner had the words been said than the Pakistani openers made their belated entry to the Gabba. Timed out. It’s one of the more obscure forms of cricket dismissal. Law 31 of the MCC Laws of Cricket states that an incoming batsman must be in a position to take guard within three minutes of the fall of the previous wicket. ...