Plenty has been said about Charlie Dean’s run-out by Deepti Sharma in the final Women’s ODI at Lord’s last Saturday. Plenty more will be said about it. It is not every day that you get to see, in international cricket, a non-striker getting out for backing up too much.
On the eve of the Asia Cup, India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur feels it is time to move on, though. To a question about the latest controversy involving the incident — England skipper Heather Knight (she missed the India series after undergoing a hip surgery) tweeted that India was lying about the warning given to Dean — Harmanpreet said: “We had noticed during the last couple of games that Dean was taking long strides (from the non-striking end) and was taking advantage. It was Deepti’s awareness (that resulted in the run-out).
