Beaumont evokes Deepti at Lords 3 years ago with her obstructing the field appeal in the second odi vs India.
Beaumont obstructing the field appeal evokes memories of Dean run-out.
Smriti Mandhana’s sardonic smile spoke louder than words. Mandhana was aware that the topic would always be raised when India returned to Lord’s for the first time since Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean backing up to sweep their ODI series here over three years ago.
“Doesn’t happen, right? You come to Lord’s and that question is not asked?” Mandhana said. “We didn’t really think anything about all of that incident. Only today, there was one random appeal for Tammy Beaumont, when that happened. And again, Deepti was bowling.
“That’s when we cracked a joke that Lord’s and Deepti has an, I don’t know how I term it in words, but we had a small joke around it.
“The whole match last time, of course it was overshadowed quite a lot because of that one incident. But I would say the way we all actually played cricket in terms of that whole series, I mean, one incident cannot overshadow it, and the chat was only about how good we played and we have to just keep continuing that.”
However, several on-field occurrences provided more drama than the venue, teams, and players reuniting for the second of three ODIs in this series, which England won this time despite two major rain interruptions to pull level 1-1.
Mandhana cited the first instance, in which India requested that Beaumont be removed for impeding the field.
With 25 off 17 balls and England 36 without loss in the fifth over, Beaumont had sparked England’s opening chase of 144 in 29 overs. She started to sprint after clipping a Deepti delivery towards midwicket, but Jemimah Rodrigues jumped and sent the ball back to the striker’s end, causing her to turn around.
Richa Ghosh, the wicketkeeper, put her arms up in appeal as Beaumont pushed her right leg forward and grounded her left foot inside her crease, causing the ball to bounce off her pad. Following a review by the umpire, Beaumont was declared not out.
“I was not in a really good angle, to be fair, probably it was not visible at all,” Mandhana said. “Jemi definitely felt that maybe she kicked it or something. They referred it and it was not out, so I’m sure that they should have seen all the angles. That’s the only view I have on it.
“But I was in no angle, to be fair, to see what happened. At mid-on you don’t see what exactly happened from that way. So not being diplomatic, but genuinely I did not see it.”