Booney wrote:I can't believe those of you who have played the game think this is above board. I'm guessing you would have all gone ape shit if you'd been the victim of a mankad.
Ashwin changed his bowling action and delivery point, if you pause it as Ashwin would "normally" have bowled the ball then Butler is, if anything, 2-3cm out of his ground, compared to what we see in international cricket he's hardly taking the piss.
Ashwin's eyebrow pisses me off too.
Like I said I think Ashwins was dirty but I don’t have an issue with a mankad when a batsmen is using it to his advantage.
I played in a game where the team needed 6 off the last over to win. When I bowled the first ball of the over the batsmen was a good metre in front of the crease. When I walked back to bowl I just said to him ‘if you get any further forward my ball is going to get you in the back of the head mate, how about you come back a bit’ He laughed.
Next ball as I came before I even got to the umpire he was a head off the crease, I stopped and pointed out to the umpire how far ahead he was and that next time I have zero issue with mankadinf him, which I definitely would have. He didn’t leave the crease for the rest of the over and we won.
I would have had no qualms mankadding that bastard.