People very pressed about this, but you can't expect people who grew up in different cricket cultures to attach the same moral weight to a legal act.

I also don't like mankads as a form of dismissal because minus the drama around them, they're boring. If cricket can find a way to make it penalty runs, that'd be much better. But this is for when were ready to have nuanced conversations about this. 😬

@afidelf Andrew, while you are 100% correct, surely that is tangential to a mankad that clearly showed intent to run out rather than play; Dean is in when the bowl “would have been bowled”. Like deepti as a cricketer but that was as gamesman as scoring past a goalkeeper who’s injured

@IsthatDoc Didn't see the incident. Also think Mankads should be five penalty runs rather than a dismissal, because it's a boring way to get someone out. But you can't expect people who grew up in a different cricket cultures to attach the same moral weight to a legal act.

@afidelf And coz spirit of cricket can't evaolve with time as well cz it has "white" written all over it , ain't that right ? Or It has to always suit the white privilege ? Stop bringing race into this and if someone still has to cry and bring hashtags , bring'em to @ICC 2 chng rules!!!

@afidelf Lol and this spirit only is invoked when suits the narrative 😉😉

@afidelf Nor when cricket was invented.

@afidelf This has got nothing to do with colour. It’s just ‘not cricket’ whatever player had done it. I would have been as angry if it had been an English, NZ, Australian…player that had done it. The game was slipping away from India and they resorted to desperate underhand tactics

@afidelf The people who gave the “spirit of cricket” also gave the Bodyline Series to the game and are yet to apologise for it.

@afidelf And, even now, someone who led a rebel tour to apartheid South Africa sits at the head of the World Cricket Committee.

@we_vivek Uhhh what?

@afidelf And it’s kind of selectively applied too

@afidelf @mediagag

@afidelf Was the table also white ?

@afidelf Wow... this is getting absurd.

@afidelf Different values

@afidelf And that so called 'spirit of cricket' says that when u can't show spirit of cricket by yourself u can be neglected but if u r in opposite side u can cry like a baby ...lol