Is Mankading Fair?

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Mankading is a type of run out where a bowler dismisses the non-striker by dislodging the bails before bowling when the non-striker is outside the crease. It is named after the legendary Indian bowler 'Vinoo Mankad'. During the Indian tour of Australia in 1947, he dismissed an Australian batsman Bill Brown as he left the crease before the ball was delivered. Since then this mode of dismissal is referred as Mankading.

Cricket is a game of inches. What if a non striker take a couple of steps as a start and gets safe from getting runout by just 4 inches, isn't that unfair? What if he hadn't taken a start, he surely would have gotten out. What if in the 1999 world cup semi-final Allan Donald had taken a start, South Africa would have played the final and might have won the world cup too. It is within the laws. So what's unfair there? How can it be against the spirit of the game, if it is a mode of dismissal which is within the laws. Ravichandran Ashwin got a lot trolled when he mankaded Jos Buttler. I believe he was completely right. Whatever he did was within the laws.

According to me, Mankading is fair and it is not at all against the laws and spirit of the game. After all why a batsman should be allowed to run only 20 yards when he supposed to run 22 yards.

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