Much has been made of Ravichandran Ashwin’s “mankhading” of Butler in an IPL match. Spin legend, Shane Warne has been the most vocal of all critics of this incident. In fact Mr.Warne has called it a disgrace. Unlike his spin bowling, which was legendary and probably the greatest of all time, his take on certain cricket controversies is not that great.
Only last year when his own ‘mates’ from the Australian side were involved in one of the most audacious ball tampering incident and were given a one year ban, Shane Warne felt the sentencing was too harsh. Why? is it because Aussies were involved? In fact the way he has come down so heavily on Ashwin far outweighs his comments on the ball tampering incident last year. And by far the ball tampering incident was the most disgraceful incident ever. Why this double standards and why so much of angst against Ashwin.
The game is heavily loaded in favor of batsmen and in the IPL it is more so, now lets see what do we have:
> Only one bouncer per over
> Anything even a mili meter off the leg stump is WIDE
> Slightly off the off stump is WIDE
> Ball over the head is a no ball
> Every no ball gives a FREE HIT to the batsman
> Made a mistake of bowling over the mid riff of the batsman….is called a beamer
> Any doubt….favor the batsman PLEASE
> Ventured onto the pitch by mistake…WARNING, do it again, cant BOWL!
> Total and complete protection…..!
Now, a batsman is clearly gaining advantage by running before the ball is bowled and the bowler who notices this felony is the villian. There is a crease clearly marked in WHITE which indicates the line behind which the batsman should park his bat until the ball is released/bowled. The same crease is also used every ball of every over to see if the bowler oversteps. Even if he does so marginally it is signaled a NO BALL. Not only that even after a batsman is declared out he can wait until it is confirmed again that the bowler did not overstep. WOW!
Now a poor desperate bowler who has been limited by the gentlemen of yore who donned the whites and played the game, has to constantly invent ways in which to get a batsman out. The same gentlemen have also written a certain rule that allows a bowler to run-out a batsman if he leaves the crease before a ball is delivered/released/bowled. NOW Mr.Shane Warne and friends where the f*** is the problem? What is the spirit and whose spirit is it???? to hell with the spirit. What Ashwin did was great and is a very good example to all youngsters to park their bats behind the crease until the ball is released. If not than every youngster playing the game as a bowler should MANKHAD such batsman. Go Man!
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