Originally Posted by gomezz:
“So it is all right for batters to try to sneak an advantage but not pay the penalty if they get punished for it? Pure hypocrisy!”
Look at the position of the bat when the stumps were broken - bearing in mind that this was the final over with Zimbabwe needing three to win - and tell me if you think the batsman was
genuinely trying to "sneak an advantage".
It wasn't even mere centimetres as I suggested earlier, the bat was on the line.
And that doesn't even address the issue of why the bowler didn't warn the batsman first, which I think was solely to do with the state of the game; this whole incident probably would not have happened if the result didn't hinge on it.
I personally think the warning is the aspect of the relevant law that should be changed, in that mankading should only be permitted once the bowler has made a clear warning to both the batsman and the umpire that the batsman is backing up too far.