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Message: [QUOTE="Big Del, post: 3471282, member: 9291"] Windies and Dean Jones . in 1975, Greg Chappell whipped the bails off at the MCG as England's Brian Luckhurst had his own anxious moment in an ODI, with local reports erroneously claiming that Mankad had "started the fad" almost 30 years earlier. And then 1979, Pakistani players were so incensed that Australia's Alan Hurst had 'Mankaded' tailender Sikander Bakht in the Perth Test, that they appealed for "handled ball" in the next innings when Aussie opener Andrew Hilditch picked up the pill to hand it to the bowler. Hilditch was given out. By the letter of law, it was the right decision — by "the Spirit of Cricket", it was questionable. The Pakistani players had made their point. People in glass houses and all that BS ... [/QUOTE]

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