England captain Jos Buttler says he’d recall any batter dismissed via Mankad
As debate rages over the final dismissal in the recent women’s ODI, England white ball captain Jos Buttler says he’d recall any batter dismissed via Mankad writes ELIZABETH AMMON.
Jos Buttler has revealed that he would recall any batsman dismissed via a Mankad by one of his bowlers, even if it were in the World Cup final.
Buttler was asked what he thought of the mode of dismissal after the England batter Charlie Dean became the latest to be run out in such a way by Deepti Sharma; she had left the crease at the non-striker’s end on Saturday at Lord’s and the dismissal concluded India’s 16-run win in the one-day international.
MCC, the custodians of the Laws of Cricket, defended the events at Lord’s, but Buttler told talkSPORT it was “not what you want to see in a match”. The England white-ball captain was unequivocal in his response when asked whether, in a World Cup final against Australia where one of his bowlers had used the Mankad method to run out the non-striker, he would support his bowler or recall the batsman.
“No, I am calling the batsman back,” he said. “No one wants to see them in the game because they always create such a talking point when it should be about the battle between bat and ball and watching great games of cricket. They always seem to happen at unsavoury times.”
There has traditionally been an unwritten convention that a bowler should warn a batsman with a tendency to back up too far that they could run them out. The law covering Mankads – named after the former India bowler Vinoo Mankad – states that non-strikers are “liable to be run out” if they have left their ground before the bowler “would normally have been expected to release the ball”.
“I understand you have to have the rule there so people can’t just gain an unfair advantage, but they should re-word it because the way the law is written gives a lot of grey areas with the ‘expected to bowl’ part, so maybe if they just tightened that up,” Buttler said.
Buttler has twice fallen victim to Mankad dismissals – by the India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin when he was playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League in 2019 and five years earlier when batting for England against Sri Lanka in an ODI.
Originally published as England captain Jos Buttler says he’d recall any batter dismissed via Mankad
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