Run out

Run out on a free hit

Yes — you can be run out on a free hit.

• On a free hit the striker can only be out in the ways allowed off a no-ball: run out, hit the ball twice, or obstructing the field (ICC 21.19.2 and 21.18). Run out is one of them.
• The run you were attempting when the wicket was broken doesn't count; runs you had already completed do (Law 38.5).

Not a Law: Free hits are an ICC playing condition, not an MCC Law. In a local match there is a free hit only if the organizer says so; without one, the ball after a no-ball is an ordinary delivery.

Source: ICC T20I clause 21.19 · MCC Law 38

Run out off a no-ball

Yes — run out is one of the few ways to be out off a no-ball. The 1-run no-ball penalty still counts.

• Off a no-ball, neither batter can be out except hit the ball twice, obstructing the field or run out (Law 21.17).
• The no-ball penalty stands even when a batter is dismissed (Law 21.14).
• Runs completed before the run out count; the run you were attempting doesn't (Law 38.5).

Source: MCC Law 21 · MCC Law 38

Shot hits the stumps at the non-striker's end

Not out — unless a fielder touched the ball before it hit the stumps. A shot that goes straight onto the non-striker's stumps can't run the non-striker out, even if they're out of their ground.

• Law 38.2.1.2: a batter is not out run out if the ball, delivered by the bowler, has not made contact with a fielder before the wicket is broken.
• If a fielder did touch it first and the non-striker is out of their ground, it's a run out (Law 38.1).

Source: MCC Law 38

Non-striker leaving their ground early

It's a fair run out. If the non-striker leaves their ground before the bowler's arm reaches the top of the bowling action, the bowler can run them out by throwing at the stumps or breaking them with the ball in hand.

• Law 38.3.1: the non-striker is liable to be run out from the moment the ball comes into play until the bowler's arm reaches the highest point of the normal bowling action.
• Law 38.3.1.1: once the arm has passed that point, the bowler can no longer run the non-striker out this way.
• If the non-striker is out and the ball wasn't delivered, that ball doesn't count in the over (Law 38.3.2).

Source: MCC Law 38

Which batter is run out

The batter out is the one whose ground is at the end where the wicket was broken. Whether they had crossed decides whose ground is whose.

• Law 38.4: the batter out is the one whose ground is at the end where the wicket is fairly broken.
• Law 30.2: if only one batter is in a ground, it's theirs; if neither is, each ground belongs to whichever batter is nearer to it. So once the batters cross, each owns the end they are running towards.

Source: MCC Law 38 · MCC Law 30

Runs when someone is run out

Runs you had completed before the run out count. The run you were attempting when the wicket was broken does not.

• Law 38.5, which also keeps any penalty runs.

Source: MCC Law 38

Run out — bat over the crease

Not out — as long as the bat (held in the hand) or any part of the body was GROUNDED behind the popping crease when the wicket was broken. Being over the line in the air doesn't count.

• A batter is out of their ground unless some part of their person or bat is grounded behind the popping crease (Law 30.1.1).
• The bat counts only while it's held — in the hand, or a glove on the hand (Law 5.6).

Source: MCC Law 30 · MCC Law 5 · MCC Law 38

Run out — bat or feet in the air after grounding

Not out, if you had already grounded your bat or body beyond the crease while running or diving. Losing contact afterwards — the bat bouncing up, both feet in the air — doesn't make you out.

• Law 30.1.2: having grounded beyond the popping crease while running or diving, a later loss of contact with the ground does not put the batter out of their ground.

Source: MCC Law 30 · MCC Law 38