Heather Knight, England’s designated captain, who missed the recent home series against India, has thrown fuel over the fire of Charlie Dean’s dismissal at the hands of Deepti Sharma, who was run out at the non-striker’s end during the 3rd ODI between England and India women’s team at Lord’s.
On Saturday, the third and final ODI between India women and England women came to an interesting end after all-rounder Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean at the non-striker end as the batter was backing up too far ahead when the ball was about to be released.
Dean was dismissed for 47 runs and India won the match by 16 runs defending 170 and whitewashed England in their own backyard 3-0.
On Monday, after reaching India, Deepti revealed that her side gave warnings to Dean, but when they saw her still venturing out of her crease, they decided to run her out.
"It was our plan because she was leaving the crease repeatedly. We have even warned her. So, whatever we did was according to the rules and regulations. We had told the umpires too. But she was still doing it, so we had no other option,” Deepti Sharma was quoted by ESPNCricinfo.
But now England’s designated skipper Heather Knight has said that Team India did not give any warnings and they should not be "lying".
"The game is over, Charlie was dismissed legitimately. India were deserved winners of the match and the series. But no warnings were given. They don't need to be given, so it hasn't made the dismissal any less legitimate," she said in a tweet.
She further said that the Indian team doesn’t need to lie that they gave warnings to Charlie Dean before running her out.
She said: "But if they're comfortable with the decision to affect the run out, India shouldn't feel the need to justify it by lying about warnings."
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)- the custodians of the laws of cricket - came out with a statement yet again clarifying their stance on the subject.
The statement read: "MCC this year announced amendments to the laws of cricket to move being run out at the non-striker's end, from law 41 unfair play, to law 38 run out.”
This match was also India bowling legend Jhulan Goswami’s final international match as she retired with 255 wickets in 204 ODIs.
