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Cricket News: I’ll call batsman back after a mankad in a WC Final – Jos Buttler | Buttler says England are against running out a non-striker
English limited-overs skipper Jos Buttler has expressed that his team doesn’t stand for a bowler running out a non-striker and that his team will rather call back a batsman if any of their players dismissed the opposition that way.
“No, I am calling the batsman back. No one wants to see them (mode of dismissal) 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,” Buttler told TalkSPORT as he was confronted with this question in the aftermath of the Deepti Sharma-Charlotte Dean episode at Lord’s on Sunday.
Moeen Ali shares similar views to Jos Buttler about the mankad
Vice-captain Moeen Ali has further reiterated that he understood that the mode of dismissal wasn’t illegal but he hoped that it wouldn’t become a common practice. “I don’t think I’ll ever do it unless I was really angry with someone. It’s in the laws and there’s nothing illegal so people that do it have the right, but I just hope it doesn’t become a common thing, or something that’s regularly done,” the all-rounder said in an interaction with the Telegraph.
The 35-year-old added, “You are not really working to get a wicket. At least with a run-out, there’s a bit of work that has to be done, and with all the other dismissals. This is just waiting for the guy and taking the bails off. Even when I played cricket as a kid in the garden, it’s not my thing to do.”
The Marlyebone Cricket Club (MCC) has, however, put the onus on the non-striker to back up at the crease at the time of the release of the delivery. Buttler’s comments have gained traction in social media as he was at the centre of a similar incident involving him and Ravichandran Ashwin in one of the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches back in 2019.
Buttler and Moeen join the long list of former and current English internationals to have criticised Deepti Sharma and the Indian women’s team for resorting to such a method to emerge victorious in the third ODI between the two teams on Sunday. England is in the middle of a seven-game T20I series against Pakistan that the latter is leading by 3-2 currently.
