Mankading News

Last month, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) the custodians of the laws of the game, issued a clarification to the wording of the law following an incident in which Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa attempted to run-out non-striker Tom Rogers in a Big Bash game in January. 

The bowler's release point and the phrase "usually expected to release the ball" were the two terms that caused the most confusion in the prior regulation.

Mankading has become the most controversial mode of dismissals. Despite the MCC, the law makers in cricket, removing the stigma attached to the run out last year, many in the cricketing world feel it is an unethical way to dismiss a batter. Not to forget, MCC has clearly written in its rulebook that a bowler can dismiss the batter a non-striker's end (rules permitting) and the dismissal is not against the spirit of the game. Yet, the mankad controversy keeps on happening. The dismissal is called 'Mankading' because it was first done by Vinoo Mankad, wo ran out a batter for backing up too far at the non-striker's end. Since then the foreign media labels it as 'mankading', something which is wrong to do on the field of cricket. Here, we bring you top 5 controversies that erupted thanks to mankading dismissal. Read on. 

Zampa received looks from the batter and the on-field umpire as though he were giving a warning or making an appeal. The umpire turned to the TV umpire when Zampa indicated that he was claiming the wicket.

The issue became a hot topic of discussion when Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean at the non-striker’s end for leaving her crease too early and handed India a historic 3-0 clean sweep in women's ODI series in England, last month.

Deepti's run-out of Charlie immediately attracted boos from the crowd at Lord's and divided the cricketing world yet again on the run-out from non-striker's end rule, which is valid as per the laws of the game.

Several players like India's premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin have advocated for it as a fair mode of dismissal. Sachin Tendulkar said he was always averse to the term used for this dismissal as ‘Mankaded’.

The term ‘Mankading’ came into existence for the first time when legendary Indian all-rounder Vinod Mankad dismissed an Australian batsman Bill Brown during a Test match in 1947. If a player leaves the field for more than 15 minutes, he won’t be allowed to bat/bowl for that much amount of time in the next innings of the game. Former Australian skipper Steve Waugh was famously out handling the ball in the 2001 series against India.

Delhi Capitals off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Aaron Finch a warning for leaving his crease in their IPL match in Dubai on Monday (October 5). The incident happened in the third over of RCB's innings, when Finch was caught well outside the crease by Ashwin at the non-striker’s end. But he didn’t attempt to ‘Mankad’ Finch and allowed him to return to his crease.

India’s Ravichandran Ashwin has suggested a “Free ball” for the bowler in case of a Mankading situation. The spinner also asked for 5 runs to be docked from the batting side in case the batsman is dismissed on the "free ball". Mankading or Mankad is a form of a run-out where the batsman can run-out the non-striker in case the latter is out of the crease prior to the delivery. Ashwin came into the spotlight when he 'Mankad' Jos Butler during the IPL last year.

His remarks came as Afghanistan`s spinner resorted to `Mankading` to dismiss a Pakistan batsman in the quarter-final of the U-19 World Cup.

Mankading is when a batsman leaves the crease before a delivery and the bowler runs him out before completing his complete bowling action.