Whenever “Mankading” happens in cricket, it brings controversies and different ideas with completely different faces. “Within the rules” and “Fair play of the game” is the main two dividance of in terms of people’s ideas and opinions on the run out scenario.
The Latest incident was Mohommad Shami's attempt to run Dasun Shanaka out. Shanaka was on 98 at the moment and it was the last over of the match with India had assured the win but played intensively to avoid Shanaka from getting the century. But straightaway Rohit Sharma, the Indian skipper talked to his bowler and withdrew the appeal for the run out. Eventually, Shanaka reached the century with a boundary in the next ball.
After that, the cricket internet presents their opinions on the incident with different faces. Some of them were it’s within the rules and the batter should be out, it’s not fair with India already sealed the victory, Mankading is not fair but batter should be given warnings, Rohit disrespected Shami there and etc.
Turning head back to the recent past, MCC changed the name of this dismissal as “non-striker runout” saying it is no longer deemed unfair and a legitimate mode of dismissal as well as a disrespect to the Mankad family. We experienced both sides of the coin in recent past. England batter Charlie Dean was run out by Deepti Sharma in the third ODI between England and India which was done at a crucial moment of the game and run out decided the winner as it was the 10th wicket of English inning, the controversial dismissal raised some question on cricketing world again with those opinions. Mitch Starc had the opportunity to run Theunis de Bruyn out in the Boxing Day test but instead, he gave him the warning to stay inside the crease. Starc said later he didn’t want to run the batter out but he wanted to avoid batter backing up so much.
Those were not the only and of course, not the last such incidents in cricket field. MCC tried to end those controversies but seems like still players, fans, media and people who are involved with cricket have very different ideas. Cricket shouldn’t be with such arguments, they reduce the quality of the game as well.
I would like to add a suggestion for this matter. My suggestion is the batter should be warned on the first occasion, and the first warning should be counted as a warning to the whole inning; it means not just for the particular batter but for all the batters that are going to bat after that moment. If any batter seemed backing up at the bowler’s delivery stride, 5 penalty runs should be given for each moment the batter takes an extra advantage ( 5 runs deducted from the batting team's total). With that, there won’t be any controversies. The wrongdoing team will be penalized and there won’t be no need for the “fair play” mentions as well. If the bowling team is unhappy with non-striker backing up too far and 5 penalty runs do justice for them.
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