On the Contradictions In The Opposition to Mankading

The non-striker leaves her crease too early and gets dismissed run out by the bowler at the non-striker’s end. The ball is called dead ball and is not counted as one for the over. The Law is unambiguous about this.

“If the non-striker is out of his/her ground at any time from the moment the ball comes into play until the instant when the bowler would normally have been expected to release the ball, the non-striker is liable to be Run out.”

There seems to be this idea among those who don’t like this mode of dimissal that the bowler is somehow cheating because she’s looking for the run out at the non-striker’s end.

1. They need to explain why they think this.

2. They need to explain under what circumstances they would find such a dismissal to be fair.

3. They need to explain their position on warnings. Do they want bowlers to warn non-strikers at least once before dismissing them in this way?

4. If they do, they need to explain the contradiction in their position - on the one hand, they object to the bowler “deliberately” trying to dismiss the non-striker, and on the other, they want the bowler to warn the non-striker. How is the warning supposed to occur if the bowler is not looking for the possibility? And if the bowler is looking for the possibility, how can the dismissal not be deliberate?

5. If they don’t think a warning is necessary, all the other contradictions still remain? How can a bowler run the non-striker out at the bowler’s end for backing up too far without looking at what the non-striker is doing?

I fail to see how opponents of mankading can resolve these contradictions. If you can think of a way, please leave your idea in a comment below.

PS: Dean was out of her crease when Sharma landed her delivery stride

Muhammad Asif @MuhammadAsif26_

We can see it clearly there is no intention of bowling the ball, she is looking towards non striker batter to cheat him. This is very unfair & terrible act worst spirit 🙏 #mankading #mankad #Cheater #INDvsENG

Jack Russell MBE @jackrussellart

I still find it pretty pathetic that you would want to win a match by Mankad running out someone...the rules need to change to allow a warning, if you've been warned fine, stop taking advantage @BCCIWomen Capt could have warned non striker #ENGvIND #Cricket @HomeOfCricket

Paul Newman @Paul_NewmanDM

Never liked Mankadding. Not a legitimate dismissal to me, in the rules or not

John Etheridge @JohnSunCricket

It might be in the Laws and no longer even regarded as 'unfair,' but anybody who likes the conclusion to the women's match at Lord's has no feel for the essence and spirit of cricket (imho).