Punam Raut’s choice to stroll: ‘It is one thing that all of us appreciate so much’

Punam Raut was once lauded for her choice to stroll whilst the umpire was once pronouncing now not out on the second one day towards Australia with team-mate Smriti Mandhana undecided what number of different avid gamers would have made the verdict.

When Raut, who confronted 165 balls for 36, performed ahead to Sophie Molineux within the 81st over, Alyssa Healy appealed for the stuck in the back of however there was once now not a lot give a boost to from the bowler or Meg Lanning at slip.

Raut, alternatively, was once fast to begin to make her means from the pitch – it’ll had been she didn’t first of all see Phillip Gillespie declining the attraction as he she didn’t glance up straightaway – and for a second Australia idea they weren’t getting the wicket till Raut endured her means off.

There is not any DRS on this multi-format collection so if Raut had stood her flooring Australia would have had no recourse.

“First we reacted, like, ‘Oh, why did she do this?’ However, then, after all, it is one thing that all of us appreciate so much. I feel she has earned a large number of appreciate from the entire team-mates that she if truth be told walked out,” Mandhana mentioned.

“And I do not know what number of people would if truth be told do this in cricket in this day and age – males’s or girls’s. At the moment other folks stroll out as a result of there may be DRS. But if there’s no DRS and to stroll out… I do not know. So, indubitably she has earned a large number of appreciate from us, however, yeah, the primary response was once, ‘Oh, was once it if truth be told an edge or why did she stroll?'”

When Australia batter Beth Mooney, who was once at the participant microphone, was once requested by means of the Channel Seven commentators whether or not she would have accomplished identical, she mentioned: “No probability.”

Requested concerning the second following the day’s play, Ellyse Perry added: “That is very a lot at her discretion whether or not or now not she sought after to stroll. She did, so I guess from our standpoint, it was once simply acknowledging that however beside that there wasn’t an excessive amount of dialog about it.”

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