Help Preserve Our Sporting Heritage

**bitingmidge** · 22nd December 2004, 09:54 AM

I have it on good authority that an Australian batsman of the time thought the Kiwi's were weak as XXXX for not hitting a six off the grubber ball.

This is not one of those friend of a friend of a friend stories (well it is, but only once removed):

A former test player of about that vintage told me that during a shield match after the underarm incident, a bloke by the name of Walters, who could bat a bit, and liked a bet, wagered a sum of money among his teammates on whether or not he could hit a six off an underarm ball.

After the days play, the incident was (apparently) reinacted. The Walters fellow, saw the ball coming, skipped down the pitch a few paces and stuck his toe in the path of the ball.

The ball popped straight up into the air, and when it got to about waist height found itself travelling at a thousand miles an hour over the boundary to the delight of all and sundry.

Try it yourself on Boxing Day....even I can do it!!

I truly believe that the broohaahaa about THAT ball is all a made up fantasy so that the Kiwi's could cover up their batting ineptitude!

Cheers,
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**silentC** · 22nd December 2004, 10:01 AM

Yes but he was their number 11, so not really a batsman at all. In fact they could've bowled a nice straight ball and he probably still wouldn't have hit a six.

Mankad was Indian I think Craig.

**craigb** · 22nd December 2004, 10:19 AM

Yes you are right Darren.

There are actually 2 Mankad's that have played Test Cricket

AV Mankad and MH Mankad.

Doen't know which was the unsporting one though.

**silentC** · 22nd December 2004, 10:23 AM

Mankad: the running out [of] a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball. Now banned, it is named after Vinoo Mankad, an Indian bowler, who controversially used this method in a test match.

**outback** · 22nd December 2004, 07:34 PM

So why did they ban it, I reckon if he's out of his ground, stuff him!

**silentC** · 23rd December 2004, 08:31 AM

It's only banned if the bowler has started his delivery run. If the batsman leaves the crease when the bowler is just starting his preparatory run up, he can still be 'Mankaded'.

**bitingmidge** · 23rd December 2004, 09:01 AM

So is the delivery run,when he bobs over to the umpire at the end of each over to give him the ball? Or is the preparatory run when he's running back to start his run?

Either way even slow bowlers start 20 metres away so it'd be a bit hard anyway.

I think someone should become a mankad specialist, so that Channel Nein can bring in a whole new range of technology and souvenirs.

Kaddometer.... Richie's ten Mankad heroes......

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**silentC** · 23rd December 2004, 09:19 AM

I think the delivery run is when Ritchie has sold all of the 'limited edition, only 10,000,000,000 printed' autographed photos and Shane Warne puts them in the back of the Holden Stateman and drives around to all the buyers' houses and drop them off. The preparatory run is when they send Brett Lee down to the shops to get a hundred weight of pies and a packet of fags for the road.

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