{"id":282141,"date":"2025-11-25T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282141\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:36:22","slug":"ind-vs-sa-ashwins-mankad-reply-for-marco-jansen-goes-viral-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282141\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs SA: Ashwin\u2019s &#8216;Mankad&#8217; reply for Marco Jansen goes viral | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lk-75.jpg\" alt=\"IND vs SA: Ashwin\u2019s 'Mankad' reply for Marco Jansen goes viral\" title=\"Photo\/Agencies\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Former India spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ravichandran-ashwin\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ravichandran Ashwin<\/a> said in a light-hearted comment that it would be easy to &#8220;Mankad&#8221; South Africa all-rounder Marco Jansen.Ashwin praised Jansen\u2019s performance in the ongoing Test match against India, posting on X: &#8220;He is a serious talent, long levers giving him an amazing bat swing and getting better by the day with the ball.&#8221;A user replied to Ashwin, asking: &#8220;So what you&#8217;re saying is his &#8216;long levers&#8217; are very hard to Mankad? Noted.&#8221; To which Ashwin responded: &#8220;It\u2019s easier to.&#8221;Ashwin had earlier run out Rajasthan Royals batter Jos Buttler without delivering the ball in an IPL match in 2019, while playing for Punjab Kings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m the happiest that way&#8217;: Washington Sundar reacts to his Team India role after Day 3 in Guwahati<\/p>\n<p>Informally named after the legendary Vinoo Mankad, who first did it in 1947 against Australia, &#8216;Mankading&#8217; is when a bowler dismisses a non-striker by removing the bails in the process of delivering the ball with the batsman outside the crease. The South African allrounder Jansen scored 93 off 91 balls on day 2 of the ongoing second Test of the two-match series in Guwahati, to help the Proteas reach the mammoth total of 489.Additionally, on day 3 of the Test on Monday, Jansen bowled a destructive spell of fast bowling that shattered the Indian batting lineup. Jansen finished with figures of 6\/48, putting South Africa in complete control while also entering a series of elite statistical lists.Replying to South Africa&#8217;s 489, India were 288 behind in their first innings but the tourists did not enforce the follow-on and decided to bat again on day three in Guwahati.After winning the first Test in the two-match series in Kolkata, South Africa are closing on a first series win in India since Hansie Cronje&#8217;s team triumphed in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said in a light-hearted comment that it would be easy to &#8220;Mankad&#8221; South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,16326,6535,115218,114352,30145,36924,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-news","10":"tag-india-cricket","11":"tag-mankad","12":"tag-marco-jansen","13":"tag-ravichandran-ashwin","14":"tag-south-africa-cricket","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282141","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=282141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}