Jos Buttler opens up on mankading debate, says ‘I will call batsman back even if it is World Cup final’

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England white-ball captain Jos Buttler and his deputy Moeen Ali said that running out a non-striker for backing too is not “their thing” and that they would rather call the player back if any of their teammates used it as a mode of dismissal.

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Custodians of the laws of cricket MCC have re-affirmed that a non-striker’s run out while backing up is within the laws of the game but there has been no end to the debate in the aftermath of the third and final women’s ODI between India and England where Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean to complete clean sweep for visitors.

“No, I am calling the batsman back,” the 32-year-old Buttler, who is recovering from a calf injury ahead of the World Cup, told TalkSPORT.

Incidentally, in IPL 2019, Buttler was at the receiving end as Rajasthan Royals opener when he was dismissed in a similar fashion by veteran Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who was back then playing for Kings XI Punjab.

“No one wants to see them (mode of dismissal) in the game because they always create such a talking point when it should be about the battle between bat and ball and watching great games of cricket. They always seem to happen at unsavory times.”

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Moeen, the stand-in captain in their current T20I series against Pakistan, echoed similar sentiments: “No, it’s not my thing.”

“I don’t think I’ll ever do it unless I was really angry with someone. It’s in the laws and there’s nothing illegal so people that do it have the right, but I just hope it doesn’t become a common thing or something that’s regularly done,” Moeen told the ‘Telegraph’.

The mode of dismissal currently listed in the MCC’s ‘Unfair Play’ section of the laws (41.16.1) is to be moved to the ‘Run Out’ section from October 1, when an update to the ICC Playing Conditions comes into effect.

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