Mankad at the MCG

[mosi]

Ah fair enough. I’m not sure mankad makes the game more exciting tho. The supporters of both sides were booing when it happened in the big bash game for example.

And so they should. Call me old fashioned, but it seems to me to run contrary to the spirit of cricket. Not the way I was taught to play it. And I know the laws allow it, and it’s fair enough if a warning has been given, but I’d be ashamed if a player of any team I was supporting did it.

 

[chelt_mackem]

Mankads for millions of us leave a horrible taste but also It will make a mockery of the game once it is more accepted. Bowlers running in taking a chance to see it a batsmen is overbalancing having failed mankads, time wasted. Line technology and one short given and you will never have a mankad and never have a batsman get a run by leaving his crease early. It’s the most blatant and obvious answer imo.

In the pro game, this is the obvious solution. You've already got the umpire watching the footage to check for the no ball, so have him also checking that the batsman is in his crease when the bowler's foot lands, it's literally the same line. If he's outside his crease, it's one short.

I would keep the mankad in the rules though, if a batsman is daft enough to risk being called for a short run, his wicket should also be at risk for the same thing. It would be pretty stupid of a batsman to get out that way if the short run was being called, as a bowler would only be likely to go for the mankad if the batsman had already been called for it a couple of times.