CHENNAI: When Ravichandran Ashwin ran Jos Butler out at the bowler’s end in the 2018 IPL, it created a lot of controversy. Five years down the line, the ‘cheating tag’ to that form of dismissal has been diluted significantly and the term ‘Mankading’ has gone out from cricketing vocabulary.
Harshal Patel, with one run to defend against Lucknow Super Giants, tried the same thing at Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday, only to miss it by a whisker. Ashwin, who was following the game, said that as Harshal was running in to bowl the last ball, he had told his wife about running the non-striker out!
