Just like Mankad, SKY’s name will be tied to his act. Captains marking unwarranted appeals for obstruction of field appeals might be called out for ‘doing a SKY’.
Have you ever researched into the original incident called 'Mankading', What led to it, what was the history behind this?
Please understand i am not defending SKy here, but rather giving you some info.
On a tour game of India's tour of australia - 1947-48, India vs Victoria state- the Victorian batsman Bill brown at the non striker's end started running BEFORE the ball was delivered by Mulvantrai 'Vinoo' Himmatlal Mankad - thereby gaining an unfair advantage.
Vinoo Mankad WARNED Bill Brown in that tour game but DID NOT run him out.
Please try it in your back yard, if you normally have 20 steps to run AFTER the ball is delivered, take a head start BEFORE the ball is delivered. this reduces the distance to travel to about 18-17 steps, therefore increases the chances of a run being completed before it is legally allowed and therefore an UNFAIR advantage to the batsman/non striker.,
Few days/weeks later Bill Brown did it
AGAIN in the India VS Aus, TEST MATCH.
Vinoo Mankad removed the bails at the bowlers end. He had already warned Bill Brown earlier, in the same scenario, he had paid his dues, done his bit.
The batsman was given out, run out. The Australian press caught onto this and named this form of dismissal as 'Mankaded' primarily because his name was so catcy, it had 'MAN' in it , sort of like 'Manhandled'.
Actually, it should be called 'BROWNED' after the batsman who did this unfair act or 'Billed'....The journo who conjured up this name has a lot to answer for because it tarninshes the legacy of a fine player, a player who played with dignity in defeat and restraint in victory, whose family gave India 3 generations of tests and first class players, I hope that journo has a conscience, ghairaat. Or someday, someone from Cricket Aus will have the conscience and ghairaat to set this right.
Don Bradman himself said that this dismissal was unfortunate and should not be called 'MANKADED'. In his book 'Farewell to Cricket' - The detailed description of this incident is given and his condemnation of this incident clearly saying he regretted a sportsman of Vinoo Mankad's calibre has had to be dragged in the dirt like this, is a travesty of cricketing justice.
Please do a google search ' Did Don Bradman condone Mankading?'...
As i said above, it was his bad luck to be the wrong person at the wrong place with that name to have something of unsporting connotations associated with his fair name.
It could very well have been 'singhed' if a player with last name of Singh was in his position or 'Iyered' if an Iyer was in his position or 'Ali'd' or 'Ahmeded' or 'Khanned' from your neck of the woods or 'd'silvad' or 'pererad' if our SL Bros were involved.
- Lastly, if my team India were batting in the finals of the WC/WCT/any tournament/test/odi ,
- Number 10 and 11 at the crease
- one run to tie/win
- The bowler starts to run and has almost reached the umpire/bowling crease
- the batsman starts to run, leaves the crease and if bowler has not completed their bowling action
I would support the bowler dislodging the bails and running out the Indian non striker, no second thoughts on this, taking a start before the ball is delivered/before bowling action is completed is taking an unfair advantage/cheating and has no place under spirit of the game or other balderdash.
I hope ICC/the law makers name this sort of dismissal as Bowler's run-out or back up run out or any other fancy jazzamaaza and stop booting the fair name of Vinoo Mankad into the dirt.
