Starc’s solution to end ‘Mankad’ runout stigma

Mitchell Starc has brainstormed an ingenious idea for how to end the habit of non-strikers backing up too far without compelling bowlers to create potentially ugly scenes by running them out. While Starc created headlines by warning England’s captain Jos Buttler for backing up too far in a Twenty20 game in Canberra, he revealed that warning batters had been an almost constant theme of his career. Charlie Dean after being run out by Deepti Sharma at Lord’s. Credit:Getty As a consequence, Starc told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald he had thought through a solution: use the fixed cameras monitoring no-balls to also check if a batter is leaving the crease before the bowler’s front foot lands. If they move too early, umpires can then call a short run. “While it is hard to do at all levels, why not take it out of the hands of interpretation and make it black and white?” Starc said. “There are cameras for front foot no-balls, a camera there all the time [in international cricket] and someone watching the line.

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