'Mankads’ in club cricket will lead to absolute carnage: Mark Butcher

Former England cricketer Mark Butcher believes that 'Mankad' in club cricket will lead to a lot of chaos and carnage in club cricket.

Run-out at the non-striker’s end, formerly known as 'Mankading', has been making news headlines quite often these days. Everytime, there is a run out at the non-striker's end or an attempt of the same, the social media starts buzzing.

The debate of run-out at the non-striker's end started in the IPL (2019) when India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin ran Jos Butler out at the non-striker’s end in game between Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) and Rajasthan Royals. Millions of people watched the game and it sparked a debate on social media whether or not it was in the spirit of the game. Almost all the former players and cricket experts had a say on the same and opined their thoughts.

Cricket expert and former England batter Mark Butcher has shared his opinion on how run-outs at the non-striker's end are going to be the way forward and how it can result in utter chaos. Butcher was speaking on the Wisden cricket weekly podcast, where the topic of run out at the non-striker's end was mentioned.

Butcher said, “The other side to this is we’re looking at this very much through the prism of professional cricket or cricket that is subject at least to behavioural norms that comes with it being scrutinised by a worldwide audience.

What is not being talked about is the effect that this is likely to have on village greens on Sunday afternoons up and down the country if this starts to become the norm. And you can argue until you’re blue in the face that it’s in the laws and you’re within your rights to do so.”

Butcher added that, “I can just see absolute carnage happening up and down this land and many others if people start doing it as a matter of course in club games. Because there’s very little regulation in terms of people’s behaviour there and the game as it is played and has been played for years and years with guys umpiring their own players and that type of thing.”

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