Mehdi did not leave to answer. His candid statement, “Salmon was away from the crease. I was just watching the ball. If I had missed the fielding, then Salman would have tried to get a run. That’s how I saw it.”

The incident happened in the 39th over of Pakistan’s innings. Mehndi blocks Mehndi’s balls. Salman stood out from the non-striker’s crease. Mehdi goes to block the ball with his feet. Then he clashed with Salman. Salman thought the ball was ‘dead’. He goes to pick up the ball with his hands. Before that, Mehdi picked up the ball and broke the wicket and appealed to the umpire for a run out. Salman was surprised by Mehdi’s behavior. After the third umpire gave him out, Rizwan came forward to protest from the opposite direction. Liton Das got into an argument with him. The umpires came and removed the two men.

According to a section of experts, Mehdi Hasan Miraj has only taken advantage of the rules. There is nothing wrong here. But another section feels that such attempts at run-outs destroy the very spirit of cricket. Earlier there was no less controversy about ‘mankading’ or run-outs at the non-striker’s end. Now this incident of Salman gave a new dimension to that debate.