In U19 WC - Afghanistan left-arm wristspinner Noor Ahmad running out Pakistan opener Mohammad Huraira at the non-striker's end in the fourth Super League quarter-final at the Under-19 World Cup, whipping the bails off in his delivery stride with the opener having left his crease. On-field umpire Sam Nogajski referred the matter to Roly Black, the third umpire, and replays confirmed Huraira was out of his crease when Ahmad broke the stumps. Huraira, who was making his Youth ODI debut, was run out for a 76-ball 64. Then came the hue and cry some orchestrated, that the act was not "in the spirit of the game". .. .. another game ! - see the photo and decide for yourself whether bowler would be wrong in trying to run out the batsman who is already stealing few yards !!!
Test no.
2452 at Mohali was over in less than 3
days, India won by a huge margin and would be remembered individually by some
players. Ravichandran Ashwin went past
legend Kapil Dev becoming the 2nd highest wicket-taker. MoM was
Ravindra Jadeja who had a fabulous outing, smashing an unbeaten 175 and
continued his brilliant run with the ball -
he ended up picking a five-wicket haul to achieve a rare double in the
longest format. Jadeja became only the
sixth player in the world to score 150-plus runs and pick up a five-wicket haul
in a Test match. He has now joined the likes of legendary Gary Sobers, Vinoo Mankad and Polly Umrigar among
others in an elite list of players who achieved the rare double feat in the
same Test match.
Have seen Ashok Mankad
play at Marina; he was one of the greatest
cricketing brains in India, especially for Bombay team and in leading Mafatlals in Buchi Babu Trophy. His father
Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad known as Vinoo Mankad, was the more illustrious taking 162 wickets in Tests
is the man in news often. Ashok Mankad
did not succeed in a big way, though immensely talented, perhaps introduction
of helmets would have changed his way.
His brothers Rahul Mankad and Atul Mankad were also first class
cricketers. He was married to Nirupama
Mankad who was a former Asian Tennis champion.
Vinoo Mankad played 44
Tests, scored 2,109 runs at 31.47, took 162 wickets at 32.32, and was an
opening batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler, known as one of India’s
greatest-ever all-rounders. His most famous feat was against England at Lord's
in 1952 when he scored 72 and 184 and bowled 97 overs in the match. He is one
of only three cricketers to have batted in every position during his Test
career.
You perhaps
would remember ‘mankading’ too.
To perform a Mankad, the bowler removes the bails at the non-striker's
end before the ball is released. If the non-striking batsman is out of his
crease, the fielding side has every right to appeal for a wicket.- it is a
legitimate dismissal and here is what the great Sir Donald Bradman had to say
on ‘mankading !’ - "For the life of me, I
can't understand why they questioned his sportsmanship. The laws of cricket
make it quite clear that the non-striker must keep within his ground until the
ball has been delivered," Bradman wrote in his autobiography.
"By backing up too
far or too early, the non-striker is very obviously gaining an unfair
advantage." It's spelled out clearly in Article 41.16.1 of the Laws of
Cricket. "If the non-striker is out of his/her ground at any time from the
moment the ball comes into play until the instant when the bowler would
normally have been expected to release the ball, the non-striker is liable to
be run out." It is absolutely
legal. "The emphasis of Spirit of
Cricket should be for the non-striker to stay in his ground until the release
of the ball."
The earliest of these type
of out involved Vinoo Mankad and occurred during India's tour of Australia on
13 Dec 1947 in the second Test at Sydney. Mankad ran out Bill Brown when, in
the act of delivering the ball, he held on to it and whipped the bails off with
Brown well out of his crease. The Australian press strongly accused Mankad of
being unsportsmanlike, though some Australians, including Don Bradman, the
Australian captain at the time, defended Mankad's actions. After this this type of run out came to be
known as ‘Mankaded’. There have been
instances of such outs in Tests and
in One dayers.
All that is set
to change – and Mankading would no longer be ugly or wrong !! - Custodian
of cricket laws, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has decided to move the law
relating to run-outs at non-striker's end from "unfair play" section
besides completely banning the use of saliva to shine the ball in amendments to
its 2022 code that will come into effect in October 2022.An updated code of the
Laws was approved by the MCC's main committee this week. The changes will also
allow greater leeway to the bowler in the judging of wides when a batter has
moved across the crease, and see the introduction of penalty runs for the
batting side should a fielder be deemed to have moved unfairly.
Previously, if the two batters crossed before a catch was taken, the new batter would go to the non-striker's end; now they will always be on strike - unless it is the end of the over - in a move that was proposed as a way of further rewarding the bowler for taking a wicket.
The wording that covers a
player being run out by the bowler while backing up - often referred to as
Mankading - has been moved from Law 41 (Unfair play) to Law 38 (Run out), in a
further attempt to remove some of the stigma around such dismissals."The
bowler is always painted as the villain but it is a legitimate way to dismiss
someone and it is the non-striker who is stealing the ground," Fraser
Stewart, MCC Laws Manager, told the Times. "It is legitimate, it is a
run-out and therefore it should live in the run-out section of the laws."
The prohibition of saliva
as a means of shining the ball came about through changes to playing conditions
during Covid, with MCC's research suggesting it had had "little or no
impact" on bowlers' ability to generate swing. Making this the default
position was felt to remove any ambiguity around the use of mints or sweets to
change the condition of the ball - something that was already banned.
The rewording of Law 22.1,
meanwhile, means that wide calls will "apply to where the batter is
standing, where the striker has stood at any point since the bowler began their
run-up, and which would also have passed wide of the striker in a normal
batting position".
The amendment (Law
20.4.2.12 Dead ball) - suggests that the calling of Dead ball takes into
account "if either side is disadvantaged by a person, animal or other
object within the field of play.""From a pitch invader to a dog
running onto the field, sometimes there is outside interference if this is the
case, and it has a material impact on the game, the umpires will call and
signal Dead ball."
The amendment [Law 22.1
Judging a Wide] - takes into account movement of a batter before the ball is
bowled."It was felt unfair that a delivery might be called 'Wide' if it
passes where the batter had stood as the bowler entered his/her delivery
stride."Therefore, Law 22.1 has been amended so that a Wide will apply to
where the batter is standing, where the striker has stood at any point since
the bowler began their run up, and which would also have passed wide of the
striker in a normal batting position."
Change is the only
constant and old order changeth, yielding place to new !
9th Mar 2022.
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