Starc said that doing so will remove the stigma that running out at bowling end carries.
Previously known as ‘Mankading’, the MCC, custodians of the cricketing laws, brought the dismissal under the ‘run out’ rule from unfair play ruling.
Starc created headlines by warning England skipper Jos Buttler for backing up too far in a T20 game in Canberra. Stump mic caught Starc as saying, “I’m not Deepti, but I won’t do it. That doesn’t mean you can leave early.” In response, Buttler said, “I don’t think I did.”
Deepti Sharma, the Indian women’s cricketer, made news and divided the cricket fraternity, when she ran out England’s Charlie Dean in the third and final ODI at Lord’s in September, when the batter left the crease at the bowling end one too few many times and with that, India also won the match which was heading to an exciting finish with Dean on 47.
The controversial, yet perfectly legal, dismissal once again saw people offer different opinions.
To find the optimum solution, Starc suggests using the cameras monitoring no-balls to also check if a batter is leaving the crease before the bowler’s front foot lands. If it does, umpires can then call a short run.
Starc said to Sydney Morning Herald: “While it is hard to do at all levels, why not take it out of the hands of interpretation and make it black and white? There are cameras for front foot no-balls, a camera there all the time [in international cricket] and someone watching the line.
“Then there’s no stigma. It’s taken away from the decision to have to run someone out or think about it. If it’s blatant, it is a different story, but I feel like that is at least completely black and white,” he added.
He revealed that he had to warn the New Zealand batters a number of times during the three-ODI series recently with some backing up by two meters before he bowled.
The Aussie seamer believes the issue is going to come up at the T20 World Cup but is uncertain if players will go ahead with it.
“I’m sure it’s probably going to pop its head up throughout the World Cup, no doubt. But whether anyone follows through and does it, I saw the captains say it wasn’t going to happen. It’s harder to do down the levels of cricket, but particularly in international cricket there are always going to be cameras square on for the front foot and for the run-outs. So, why not? And if it either makes the batters think about it, or stops it occurring, isn’t that a good thing?” he signed off.
(Sydney Morning Herald inputs)