Hyderabad: Ravichandran Ashwin's mankading act, that ran out Rajasthan Royals batsman Jos Buttler, has already drawn flak from English cricketers.
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The new inclusion in the list is England bowling legend, James Anderson.
Buttler, who was looking fluent during his 43-ball 69 runs innings while chasing RR's 185 runs target, was found short of the non-striker's end crease.
An alert Ashwin made the best use of the ICC's 'non-striker' law by dismissing Buttler which derailed RR's rather promising chase thereafter.
RR were 108 for 1 when Buttler was sent back in the 13th over, but his dismissal helped KXIP to cruise to a 14-run win against RR.
The incident sparked controversy and sent shock wavesamongthe cricketers-former and contemporary alike.
When several cricketers bashed Ashwin for mankading Buttler, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) came in Ashwin's rescue interpreting the laws of mankading. Though the MCC, headquartered at the Lord's, stated that spirit of cricket doesn't exist in ICC law book and Ashwin's act was within the law England cricketers were not willing to accept it.
English cricketers dubbed Ashwin's act as an attack on 'Spirit of Cricket'.
When the cricketing world was slowly gearing up to keep aside the mankading controversy in order to shift their focus on cricket, James Anderson, England's leading Test wicket-taker with 575 wickets, has sparked another row with his shocking reaction to the incident.
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The England Test bowling spearhead, Anderson, was seen shredding the image of Ashwin in his bizarre gesture to the mankading controversy.
While some took it sportingly, there are many who were angry and bashed Anderson for coming up with such shocking reaction to IPL's first mankading act.
