The mankad had gone so viral around the cricketing circuit on what had happened on Feb 2. The match between Zimbabwe and west Indies U19, Where the Windes won by 2 runs.
Some players responded in the way that, it hurts the spirit of the game, then what about taking advantage at the non striker end ?
In Cricket every run counts and even a dot ball makes the difference to the actual result.
What really hurts the spirit of the game is when players don't follow the laws or when they do things out of the law,but the mankad is in the law and it warns the non-striker to be in limits at one end.
Some may argue that in the first instance it should be a warning in crossing the line, then what about a no-ball where a bowler doesn't gets a warning, instead he as to bowl a another one with conceding a free fit in return. Where no bowler gets a warning for violating the law, so as the batsmen in the case of mankad.
These are not made in focus because it is a batsmen friendly game or a bowler friendly one, but to maintain certain regulations between batsmen and bowler for a healthy environment.
May be it wouldn't have been a big issue if Zimbabweans aren't close to the target and the same point reflects on Windes side where they need to stop every possible run. The incident have gone with in the limitation of the game that offer for both batting and fielding sides on every given day, for very given delivery.
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Seeing the Mankad As It Is
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