Top 5 controversies during play that brought about a change in the rules

The curtains are down on the 2015 World Cup and co-hosts Australia got a really short time to bask in the glory. The players have had very little time between their next schedule of games in the eighth season of the Indian Premier League.All the teams in the IPL are prepared and eyeing the cup. But not many have prepared for the Fair Play award that is at stake. With CSK winning five times in the last seven seasons, Mahendra Singh Dhoni leads all the way in this category.Here, we take a look at five controversies that led to bringing into focus the concept of fair play in the gentleman’s game. The rules of the game had to be rewritten in light of the unsavoury incidents in these five cases.

#5 Vinoo Mankad running out the non-striker

Every Indian and South African remembers the ‘Friendship Series’ of 1992 turning sour when Kapil Dev ‘Mankaded’ South African batsman Peter Kirsten. The ‘mankading’ phenomenon came into existence after a similar controversy during India’s 1947-48 tour of Australia, when Vinoo Mankad ran out Bill Brown in the second Test while the batsman was out of his ground before the ball was delivered. This infuriated the Australian media but Don Bradman defended Mankad in his autobiography.

This method of dismissal is now widely called ‘Mankading’. Although legal, some argue that a bowler should warn a batsman who backs up too far before dismissing him. It must be noted that both Mankad and Kapil Dev had warned the respective batsmen once before running them out in the same fashion.