Adam Zampa’s Mankad chalked off by Big Bash third umpire

Another day, another Mankad controversy — this time without the benefit of a wicket having fallen. It is not often that a bowler seeks to run out the non-striker and fails, but Adam Zampa has done just that.

Zampa appealed for a run-out against Tom Rogers in the Big Bash’s Melbourne derby, but the third umpire ruled that the bowler’s arm had gone beyond the vertical and so it was not out.

“The non-striker can be run out if he/she is out of his/her ground up until the moment the bowler would normally have been expected to release the ball,” MCC, the custodians of cricket’s laws, tweeted. “That means when the arm gets to its highest point. The bowler is not entitled to go all