Yas Rana, host of the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast and vice-captain of Old Pauline CC 2XI in the Surrey Championship, tackles one of the games most vexatious debates.
WE’VE discussed the Mankad to death on the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast, and my view is straightforward when it comes to the professional game; it’s in the Laws so it’s therefore entirely fine to deploy it.
I do think the debate is different when it comes to club cricket, though. From talking to my teammates, there seems to be a general acknowledgement that it is a legitimate mode of dismissal in professional cricket, but an...