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After India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s team defeated England at Lord’s on Saturday with a run-out at the non-end, striker’s she asserted that her team had committed no “crime.”
When India bowler Deepti Sharma ran out non-striker Charlie Dean, who was well outside of her ground, in the third women’s one-day international, England seemed poised to pull off a spectacular victory.
At number nine in the batting order, Dean’s 47 gave England, which was 53-6, a chance to chase down a 170-run mark. Instead, they were dismissed for 153 as India defeated them by 16 runs to win the series 3-0.
This is going to create a lot of controversy in the cricket world, but Deepti Sharma is well within her rights to run Charlie Dean out by backing up too much. Period.
England whitewashed 3-0 by India!#ENGvIND #DeeptiSharma #BCCI pic.twitter.com/W4nGi3T6xQ
— Journalist (@rohit_tirdiya) September 24, 2022
After learning she had been fired, Dean sobbed inconsolably before graciously shaking hands with her opponents.
Despite being permitted by cricket’s rules, many players have traditionally viewed running out a non-striker backing up as unsportsmanlike.
But the dismissal, known as a “Mankad” after India’s Vinoo Mankad, who ran out Australia batsman Bill Brown backing up in a 1948 Test in Sydney, was only this week reaffirmed by the International Cricket Council as being entirely lawful.
Kaur was steadfast. The triumph or the final game before his international retirement for India’s Jhulan Goswami had not been overshadowed by Sharma.
“Today whatever we have done I don’t think it was any crime, it is part of the game and it is an ICC rule and I think we just need to back our player,” Kaur said.
“I don’t think (Sharma) has done something wrong and we just need to back her.”
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