The volley of opinions, reactions, and judgments in the wake of ‘Mankad’ by Deepti Sharma has been safe to say star-studded making the headlines with varying thoughts. The barrage of views on the issue which hasn’t let up yet has been inundated with what is right and what is wrong.
Inducting herself to the swathes of assessment is Australia’s star all-rounder Ellyse Perry. Fair to say she is not a fan of the mode of dismissal who much like Moeen Ali, has similar thoughts on the run-out calling it “The biggest flop of a wicket”.
The 31-year-old Aussie player was invited to a satirical cricket podcast called “The Grade Cricketer” where she got into the groove early by making an underhanded comment. When asked what she thinks of such a dismissal she quipped, “I think the overall gist is no good, don’t do it, but if you’re going to do it, do it to England.”
The cricket world was divvied into a group of two after the rare but within the laws of MCC dismissal was brought into play by India’s Deepti Sharma. Deepti shone through the bat with an unbeaten 68 amid the batting collapse, the Indian team on the other hand was undergoing at Lords.
Deepti ended the match bathetically with a lot of boos and cheers for the win as she whipped off the bails and mankading Dean Jones with England needing 16 to win.
This sparked outrage on social media and had many a fan up in arms with a slew of frothing opinions vilifying the dismissal as unethical against the defense of myriad netizens justifying the run-out.
Perry also added the fiasco is not a true reflection of Deepti’s character as a person. “It’s layered. I actually spent a good month with Deepti Sharma just recently in the UK at The Hundred, we were both involved with Birmingham Phoenix, and I can honestly tell you she is the sweetest human being on the planet,” Perry said.
Perry, the great ambassador of women’s cricket laced into Sharma for the run-out, “I don’t like it at all. It just didn’t feel right".
“It’s just the biggest flop of a wicket,” she said on The Grade Cricketer.
Perry also further added at length that, never has she ever been part of a team where the mode of dismissal was spoken about. She stated she doesn’t mind the batter leaving the crease early, if she has a problem with it she will take it up to the umpires.
“If someone is very obviously leading off before the ball has been bowled, by a long margin, you’d probably say something to the umpire,” she said.
“You’d probably bring that up before a game if you knew someone notoriously did that but, no, besides that, I don’t think we’ve ever had a conversation about just chucking the mankad in,” she further added.
