The Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC) on Monday confirmed that the umpire’s resolution to adjudge Pakistan’s Muneeba Ali run out in opposition to India within the 2025 Ladies’s World Cup was fully in accordance with the foundations.
Muneeba was given run out within the fourth over of the Pakistan innings after Deepti Sharma threw the ball onto the stumps, proper after an unsuccessful LBW enchantment with the opener standing exterior the crease.
The purpose of competition revolved round whether or not the ball was nonetheless in play after the enchantment and if the batter could possibly be thought-about run out if she wasn’t making an attempt to take a run.
“There are a selection of items of Regulation to think about right here. The primary, and easiest, is that simply because there was a vociferous enchantment for LBW, the ball had clearly not change into Useless. The enchantment had been answered Not Out, the ball was not lastly settled within the fingers of the wicket-keeper, and Deepti’s act alone is an illustration that not all of the gamers thought-about it Useless. The ball stays in play,” the MCC wrote on its web site.
Regulation 30.1.2 states that the batter is not going to be thought-about not out if the bat or his/her particular person loses contact with the bottom after grounding it past the crease. However MCC says this clause doesn’t apply to the present scenario, as Muneeba was not ‘working or diving’ in direction of the crease.
“She had taken guard from past the popping crease and at no time did her ft transfer again into her floor,” the assertion mentioned.
The physique additional confirmed the dismissal will likely be run out and never stumped, because the stumps had been ‘not damaged by the wicketkeeper with out the intervention of one other fielder – it was as a substitute a fielder who threw it’.
Revealed on Oct 06, 2025