SO, the MCC has confirmed officially that Ravi Ashwin’s ‘Mankading’ of Jos Buttler in the IPL was bad form.
According to their Laws manager, Fraser Stewart: ’We’re very clear that it was not within the spirit of cricket.” You don’t say.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and in a world where cricket was taught and played in all schools not just those of the public variety, it was pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that while, strictly speaking, running out the batsman at the nonstriker’s end was permissible, it should only be conte...
