{"id":276591,"date":"2025-11-22T03:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276591\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:32:36","slug":"ashes-2025-26-england-players-get-mankad-warning-before-first-test-against-australia-in-perth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276591\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2025-26: England players get Mankad warning before first Test against Australia in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s batters have been warned to stay in their crease at the non-striker’s end during the Ashes to prevent Australia’s bowlers ‘Mankading’ them.<\/p>\n

Former England seamer Matthew Hoggard said Ben Stokes and his team-mates need to be on their guard against a mode of dismissal which has occurred just four times in the history of Test cricket.<\/p>\n

Hoggard “hated” the way Jonny Bairstow was controversially run out<\/a> by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey during the 2023 Ashes even though it was “within the laws of the game”.<\/p>\n

Australia captain Pat Cummins declined to recall Bairstow, who left his ground at the striker’s end during the Lord’s Test thinking the ball was dead and over had been called.<\/p>\n

And with the stakes so high in the forthcoming Ashes, Hoggard could not rule out the Aussies using an equally contentious – but legal – mode of taking wickets.<\/p>\n

“I cannot envisage Ben Stokes doing it [Mankading]. I just don’t think he would. Or Brendon McCullum [wanting England] doing that,” Hoggard told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see it coming from an English side of things. When you talk about Australia, they had a captain who used to rub the ball with sandpaper. So who knows?”<\/p>\n

Hoggard, who was part of England’s 2005 Ashes-winning team, offered a piece of straightforward advice before Friday’s first Test in Perth. <\/p>\n

“Don’t leave your crease and you’ll be all right. It’s as simple as that,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s batters have been warned to stay in their crease at the non-striker’s end during the Ashes to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-276591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}