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"Deepti Was Never Thinking About Bowling That Ball": Anderson On Charlie Dean's Run-Out

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Former England pacer James Anderson has said that running-out the non-striker when he or she is backing up too far ahead when the bowler has not even delivered the ball is not a "legitimate dismissal" in his opinion.

In the third and final women's ODI between India and England, Deepti Sharma had run Charlie Dean out, and ever since then, this mode of dismissal is being widely debated within the cricket fraternity. "Well, you know what?

I thought, I knew we were going to talk about this today. So, on the train, on the way down, I thought 'right, I'm going to just get my thoughts together and try and eloquently lay my views out for everyone'.

Within 30 seconds of thinking about it, I was fuming. It just infuriates me those people, I mean it infuriates me just because I think it's because I've been brought up, you know, in teams where we just wouldn't even consider doing something like that.

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