AS DISMISSALS go there was a strange one to ponder during Kendal's match with Morecambe in the Bay Northern Premier League on Saturday.

Kendal were replying to the visitors' score of 238 all out when Terry Hunte made a failed pull shot, spun round and was walking back to his crease when his bat dislodged a bail.

The Morecambe wicket-keeper claimed that Hunte had hit his wicket and the umpire eventually agreed.

Skipper David Fallows said: "He admits his bat took a bail off but he had finished his shot and should have been given not out under the laws of the game."

Earlier, the umpires had been involved in more controversy when Damien Gudgeon appeared well out of his ground for a run-out, but the square-leg umpire said a player had stood in front of him, preventing him from seeing and the batsman was reprieved.

They were two moments of debate but the undoubted honours on the day went to Morecambe's Pakistani professional Amol Muzumdar, who hit a chanceless 92 before he gloved one behind off Simon Little.

Muzumdar was partic-ularly strong on the front foot and moved his feet well to make the Kendal bowlers look decidedly average, though his compatriot Kabir Khan finished with five wickets at a cost of 64 runs.

Kendal compounded their misery by bowling no fewer than 29 no-balls which effectively extended the rain-reduced innings of 58 overs to 63.

Rain then came between the innings, leaving Kendal a virtually impossible task of around 35 overs to get the runs and they were not unhappy at 22 for two after 10 overs to see the weather close in again preventing further play.

n Pakistan Test wicket-keeper Rashid Latif is bringing his Academy side back to Kendal on Sunday July 22 along with some Test players, who are now available, for an exhibition match after the weather ruined last month's visit.