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Handled the ball

There have been 56 instances in first-class cricket. The most recent are:
Player
GA Gooch England v Australia Manchester 1993
AC Waller Mashonaland CD v Mashonaland Under-24 Harare 1994-95
KM Krikken Derbyshire v Indians Derby 1996
A Badenhorst Eastern Province B v North West Fochville 1998-99
SR Waugh Australia v India Chennai 2000-01
MP Vaughan England v India Bangalore 2001-02
Tushar Imran Bangladesh A v Jamaica Spanish Town 2001-2002
Al Sahariar Dhaka v Chittagong Dhaka 2003-04
Junaid Zia Rawalpindi v Lahore Lahore 2003-04
DJ Watson Dolphins v Eagles Bloemfontein 2004-05
M Zondecki Cape Cobras v Eagles Bloemfontein 2006-07
LN Mosenai Free State v Limpopo Bloemfontein 2007-08

Obstructing the Field

There have been 23 instances in first-class cricket. T Straw of Worcestershire was given out for obstruction v Warwickshire in both 1899 and 1901. The most recent are:
Player
HR Wasu Vidarbha v Rajasthan Akola 1984-85
Khalid Javed Railways v Lahore Lahore 1985-86
C Binduhewa Singha SC v Sinhalese SC Colombo 1990-91
SJ Kalyani Bengal v Orissa Calcutta 1994-95
RP Rupasinghe Rio v Kurunegala Youth Colombo 2001-02
KNS Fernando Lankan v Army Welisara 2006-07
HR Jadhav Baroda v Uttar Pradesh Baroda 2006-07
Riaz Kail Abbottabad v Quetta Abbottabad 2009-10
MR Ramprakash Gloucestershire v Surrey Cheltenham 2011
ZE Surkari Afghanistan v Canada King City (NW) 2011

Hit the ball twice

There have been 21 instances in first-class cricket. The last occurrence in England involved JH King of Leicestershire v Surrey at The Oval in 1906 . The most recent are:
Player
Shahid Pervez Jammu and Kashmir v Punjab Srinagar 1986-87
Ali Naqvi PNSC v National Bank Faisalabad 1998-99
A George Tamil Nadu v Maharashtra Pune 1998-99
Maqsood Raza Lahore Division v PNSC Sheikhupura 1999-2000
D Mahajan Jammu and Kashmir v Bihar Jammu 2005-06

Timed Out

There have been four instances in first-class cricket:
Player
A Jordaan Eastern Provice v Transvaal Port Elizabeth 1987-88
H Yadav Tripura v Orissa Cuttack 1997-98
VC Drakes Border v Free State East London 2002-03
AJ Harris Nottinghamshire v Durham UCCE Nottingham 2003

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