Jose Butler’s wicket was indeed badly needed for Ravichandran Ashwin? The captain of KXIP played horrible cricket as the Rajasthan Royal’s player was out in an unusual fashion by him.
Still cricket world is bothered about the mankading issue created by Ashwin, which sidelined his gentleman character. Well, cricket is no more a gentleman’s game with such behaviors keep popping up. Cricket players across the world still in the process to question Ashwin over his recent unacceptable act.
How one can do such thing and that too in an IPL game? Fortunately, here in IPL, players across the world unite excluding Pakistanis. Several questions were answered by Ashwin immediately after he was held responsible for spoiling the dignity of the game. Later on, many more questions asked and Ashwin being the captain of Punjab in IPL felt he was totally right. He wanted to dismiss Jose Butler and he did that cleverly he feels.
“It is in the laws of cricket and it is not illegal”, Ashwin told the reporters. He then, pointed at Anderson that he would also end up doing such thing. Ashwin is still not feeling guilty and said if he gets another chance to mankade, he would think and do what’s best.
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Cricket News: The ‘ Mankading ‘ controversy, which erupted on Monday during the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, has also left the BCCIPunjab skipper R Ashwin ran out the Rajasthan opener Jos Buttler, who was at the non-striker’s end, on his delivery stride on Monday.