Do you even ronsbu, bro?
Get all the hip new cricket nomenclature and much more in this column
"Now that it has such a cool new samurai-sounding name, I think I'll run you out backing up sometime. Unless you're two short of a hundred at the time, of course" • Associated Press
According to ESPNcricinfo's style guide, we are not to use the term m**kad on the site for such acts, because this great India allrounder deserves to be remembered for more than that one thing. We must instead say "run out backing up". In the interests of clarity, that actually ought to be "run-out at the non-striker's end backing up" (RONSBU), shouldn't it?
Part of the controversy around this type of dismissal is that it feels to many players like too cheap a way to get a batter out. Some people have suggested a compromise, in making it penalty runs instead of a dismissal.
A long-awaited women's IPL is about to take off, and this month the broadcast rights were sold for Rs 951 crore (about US$126 million) for four years. The first question that arises is why it took so long for the wealthiest board in the world to host a premium women's T20 league (even if they have hosted the brief Women's T20 Challenge in recent years).
Australia's Test players left for India late last month, but Usman Khawaja could not travel with the rest of his team-mates, as his India visa did not arrive in time to make either of the team flights (he has since received the visa, and has made the trip). Presumably this was because he was born in Pakistan, the state that India are not super-duper BFFs with.
Swept up in girl-power fervour following India's win in the Under-19 World Cup, and the big sale of WPL rights, the BCCI finds the popular nomenclature for non-striker run outs discriminatory. Decrees it be called the womankad.
Andrew Fidel Fernando is ESPNcricinfo's Sri Lanka correspondent. @afidelf