The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) on March 9 (Wednesday) moved ‘Mankading’ to Law 38 which concerns run outs.
In a situation like this, Rahul Mankad, son of former Indian cricketer Vinoo Mankad, expressed his stand on the matter and he also talked about his personal health as well.
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“My response is – about bloody time! Just (I’m) letting you know that I suffered a heart attack on Friday. They had to put a stent in my heart. Then yesterday I went into cardiac arrest. More surgery tomorrow (sic),” Mankad was quoted while talking to Cricbuzz.
While talking about MCC’s law amendments, Rahul said that the problem with ‘Mankading’ is that “this mode of dismissal is now clouded with this spirit of the game stuff.”
“The problem is that this mode of dismissal is now clouded with this spirit of the game stuff. The game has changed and there is little room anymore to take the moral high ground.
“Batters don’t walk when they nick the ball, fielders claim catches when the ball has clearly bounced in front of them, they even tamper with the ball…Where is the spirit of cricket then? And this is within the law, permissible, what more clarity do they want,” Rahul further added.
MCC's amendments
Apart from this some other changes were announced as well. A permanent ban on the use of saliva to shine the cricket ball is one crucial takeaway.
"The new Laws will not permit the use of saliva on the ball, which also removes any grey areas of fielders eating sugary sweets to alter their saliva to apply to the ball. Using saliva will be treated the same way as any other unfair methods of changing the condition of the ball," the statement from MCC read.
“Since the publication of the 2017 Code of the Laws of Cricket, the game has changed in numerous ways. The 2nd edition of that Code, published in 2019, was mostly clarification and minor amendments, but the 2022 Code makes some rather bigger changes, from the way we talk about cricket to the way it's played,” Fraser Steward, the MCC Laws Manager, stated.
