It is one of the most notable entries in international cricket. The act of a bowler running out a non-striker before releasing the ball is highly controversial, though not illegal. Even such dismissals in one match have the potential to become a hot topic of debate for years to come, but what if someone does this four times and that too in a single game?
Cameroon’s Maewa Douma is not someone who is under stress, as her performance on Sunday showed. Making her international debut at the age of just 16, she penalized four Ugandan batsmen for stepping out of their crease at the non-striker’s end by running them out in a sensational performance during the Women’s T20I World Cup Qualifier on Sunday. did.
Right-arm pacer Douma finished with figures of 1/27 in her four overs, but what these numbers do not suggest is that she was responsible for Uganda’s total of five wickets falling.
After bowling opener Proscovia Alako (31) in the fifth over, Douma again took matters into his own hands when the pair of Rita Musamali and Kevin Avino added 100 runs for the second wicket to Uganda. Strong position at 153/1.
She was first run out for 34 off the last ball of the Ugandan innings with Musamali (59), captain Immaculate Nakisui (21) and Janet Mbanazi (5) at the non-striker’s end.
A clip shared on social media shows that the Ugandan batsmen, at the end of the dismissal, did not create a ruckus and instead walked away silently without showing any dissatisfaction.
Despite this, Uganda finished with 190/6 in 20 overs and in reply dismissed Cameroon for just 35 runs in 14.3 overs.
The controversial form of dismissal has often polarized the cricketing world with the last major instance being during IPL 2019, when he dismissed Jos Buttler in a similar fashion, resulting in a U-turn by cricket parliamentarians backing the Indian. Said that “the break between the time Ashwin reached the crease and the moment it was reasonable to expect delivery of the ball was too long.”
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