“Every time the batter leaves the crease before the front foot lands, dock them a run,” says Mitchell Starc

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Mitchell Starc said to Jos, I could never see myself doing it [running a non-strike out], but it doesn't mean that you should then feel free to leave your crease early

Australia pacer Mitchell Starc, in a match against England, gave Jos Buttler a warning over not leaving his crease early while saying “I am not Deepti”, Starc remains someone who hates the dismissal but also wants batters to remain inside the crease.

Despite various endeavors by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the ‘non-striker run-out’ stays a problematic type of excusal in the cricketing range. 

When India’s Deepti Sharma dismissed England’s Charlie Dean in this manner, her action was depicted in a bad light. Australia pacer Mitchell Starc, in a match against England, gave Jos Buttler a warning over not leaving his crease early while saying

“I am not Deepti”. 

Starc remains someone who hates the dismissal but also wants batters to remain inside the crease. He has now offered an alternative to this dismissal.

“Why not take it out of the hands of interpretation, and make it black-and-white?”

Starc told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. 

“Every time the batter leaves the crease before the front foot lands, dock them a run. There’s no grey area then.”

“And in T20 cricket where runs are so handy at the back end and games can be decided by one, two, three runs all the time, if all of a sudden you get docked 20 runs because a batter’s leaving early, you’re going to stop doing it, aren’t you?

No-ball used to be a choice that was simply taken by the line-umpires previously yet has now gone to the third-umpire. Having seen no-balls presently being inspected utilizing cameras, Starc maintains that a comparable methodology should be taken concerning non-strikers leaving their wrinkle early.

“It’s harder to do down the levels of cricket, but particularly in international cricket, there are always going to be cameras square-on for the front foot and the run-outs. So, why not? And if it either makes the batters think about it – or stops it occurring – isn’t that a good thing?”

“Then there’s no stigma,”

“It’s taken away from the decision to have to run someone out or think about it. If it’s blatant, it is a different story, but I feel like that is at least completely black-and-white.”

Starc had chosen to warn Buttler in the recent T20I against England however it wasn’t the first instance of doing so for him. He also revealed what was the conversation he had with Buttler at that moment.

“I’ve warned batters plenty of times, [Buttler] is not the first occasion,”

Starc said. 

“I warned probably seven Kiwi batters in those ODI games in the top end – some were two meters outside their crease. As I said to Jos, I could never see myself doing it [running a non-striker out], but it doesn’t mean that you should then feel free to leave your crease early.”

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