Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
It’s not cricket! India’s women’s team beat England with a Mankad - England needed seventeen to win with their last pair together and the bowler broke the stumps at her end with the non facing batter out of the crease. All within the laws of the game, but hardly in the spirit of it - my view is that the bowler should have gestured to break the stumps as a “final warning” or, failing that, their captain could have withdrawn the appeal, because the way it finished ruined a good game.
Re: a warning - fair enough, but I was frankly amazed by how far the England batter was out of her crease, especially with a spinner bowling, and thought that it was she that was taking the proverbial liberty.