Is "mankading" fair?

[StriKe]

[Rotating Potato]

Bowlers should be allowed to keep a magnum with them. Any time they see a non striker crossing the popping crease , they should pop one in the back leg and later check to see if he really crossed it or not. This process will greatly reduce the unfair headstart non strikers get without actually applying the vastly immoral law called mankading.

[mishra]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/commonwealth-bank-series-2012/content/story/554756.html Read at the coment. We were mocked and ridiculed for recalling Lankan batsman

[SLICKR392]

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[zep1706]

The reasons for a warning --- 1) If you have played cricket at any level, you would realize that it is a natural tendency of the non striker to back up. Yes he should be careful but at times you don't even know yourself. Many bowlers would just try to play tricks and pretend to enter in to the bowling stride only to get the non striker out. We don't want that happening frequently. 2) Cricket is different from other sports and most people like it that way.

[Scarves]

You are taught in junior cricket to keep your bat behind the crease for that reason. Ergo it is fair game.

[King Tendulkar]

many people saying no need for warning etc etc. That may be wrong or right. But in this case the batsman was warned twice by the bowler, so in this case zero room for batsman to cry foul. In fact Butler should be ridiculued for being thick

[Gollum]

Fair but somehow difficult to digest.

[CommonMan]

This is all because of Evil Srini mama and Chuskis :((

[BlueBee]

It is fair after a warning.

This!

[BlueBee]

Even in our First class matches, I've seen and Celebrated after mankading the Non-Striker without Warning! Even got out that way :((

[CommonMan]

[Sachin=GOD]

Batsmen are not supposed to back up too far so I don't understand why people want the bowlers to give a warning....its a rule and if the batsmen cant follow it then the bowlers are within their rights to take advantage.

[BlueBee]

^

[Sachin=GOD]

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[sscomp32]

ROFLMAO Steyn is brilliant. :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical:

[Texan]

:cantstop:

[Texan]

The reasons for a warning --- 1) If you have played cricket at any level, you would realize that it is a natural tendency of the non striker to back up. Yes he should be careful but at times you don't even know yourself. Many bowlers would just try to play tricks and pretend to enter in to the bowling stride only to get the non striker out. We don't want that happening frequently. 2) Cricket is different from other sports and most people like it that way.

Even school boys know that you're not supposed to be out of your crease before the ball is bowled.

[sachinrox]

Yes it is fair after a warning. As the batsman is already flirting with danger by taking a few strides early and the bowler can run him out by getting a hand to a straight drive that tickles the stump later on. So after a warning it is absolutely fine.

[Straight Drive]

The reasons for a warning --- 1) If you have played cricket at any level, you would realize that it is a natural tendency of the non striker to back up. Yes he should be careful but at times you don't even know yourself. Many bowlers would just try to play tricks and pretend to enter in to the bowling stride only to get the non striker out. We don't want that happening frequently. 2) Cricket is different from other sports and most people like it that way.

I disagree with that and i am someone who have played cricket matches of 20,30 and 40 overs. I am sure there are many over here who too have played 40 overs matches and it would eb surprising to read if they are unaware of the mankading law. Even the street cricketers who played maximum 8 or 10 overs matches know this rule. Every runner at even our level was aware of the run out rule and i am surprised if someone thinks international cricketers are unaware of such rules. Also, like other runners, personally i was also aware of at least having some part of bat in crease although i was in a position for a run. Mankading is perfectly fine as stated in laws of cricket and more so as the runners nowadays try to take advantage of the sporting spirit which has been shown by bowlers over decades. I mean this has probably happened only 5 times in last 3 decades or so at international level. Cricket is indeed a different sport but that does not means a bowler should chuck, a runner should leave crease as per his convenience etc. Rules have to be stated and followed, else there will be chaos.