Claim: Cricket has players.

Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket . This method of dismissal is covered by Law 30 of the Laws of cricket .   A batter is out bowled if his or her wicket is put down by a ball delivered by the bowler . It is irrelevant whether the ball has touched the bat , glove , or any part of the batsman before going on to put down the wicket , though it may not touch another player or an umpire before doing so . Such rules mean that bowled is the most obvious of dismissals : almost never requiring an appeal to the umpire ; a bowled batsman will usually acknowledge the dismissal voluntarily .   If the delivered ball deflects off the bat , and bowls the batter , then the informal term is known as played on , knocked on or dragged on . If the wicket is put down without the batter making any sort of contact with the ball , then it is known as clean bowled with variations being ` bowled through the gate ' , where the ball travels between the bat and pad , or ` bowled around the legs ' , where the ball goes behind -LRB- to the legside of -RRB- the batsman and hits the stumps .   A batter can not be out on a no ball , wide or dead ball , though he/she can be stumped if it is a wide .   A batter is out bowled even if he/she could be given out by another method of dismissal instead . For instance , suppose a ball that pitches in line with the stumps , hits the player on the pads in line with the stumps and would , if it had not hit the pads , have struck the stumps . The player could be out leg before wicket . However , if the ball ricochets off the pads onto the stumps , the batter would be given out bowled instead .   Being out bowled is the second most common method of dismissal after caught . The bowler is credited to have dismissed the batter if a batter is given out bowled .