London: India ladies’s workforce captain Harmanpreet Kaur says her facet had dedicated “no crime” after finishing a first-ever whitewash in ODIs on English soil with a authorized but debatable run out.

Harmanpreet was responding to questions on the run out effected by her bowler Deepti Sharma on the non-striker’s finish to say the essential wicket of Charlie Dean, after the batter had backed up too far, and finish England’s innings 17 in need of the goal of 170 within the third and last ODI right here on Saturday.

Batting at quantity 9, Dean had staged a dramatic restoration with a combating 47 and shared a 35-run stand with No. 11 Freya Davies to place England inside attain of the goal after the hosts had slipped to 65 for 7 after which 103 for 8.

“Today whatever we have done I don’t think it was any crime,” Harmanpreet stated on the post-match press convention.

“It is part of the game and it is an ICC rule and I think we just need to back our player. I’m actually very happy she was aware of that, and the batter she is taking too long a stride I think. I don’t think she has done something wrong and we just need to back her.” The India skipper, who was named the Player of the Series, didn’t agree that the controversy took the sheen off the legendary Jhulan Goswami’s farewell sport.

“I don’t think so, because, like I said, I don’t think we have done any crime. I don’t think we need to talk about that because the first nine wickets were also very important and everybody was working so hard.

“It was a chaseable complete however the best way our bowlers bowled and the entire workforce placing within the effort, there have been a number of issues to have fun different than simply speaking in regards to the final wicket.” Harmanpreet was annoyed with the line of questioning at the presentation ceremony, when the presenter kept harping on the the run out, instead of the Indian team’s historic series triumph that was built on the back of a terrific all-round display.

“Well, to be sincere I assumed you’ll ask in regards to the 9 wickets which was not straightforward to take as effectively. It’s a part of the sport. I do not assume we now have finished one thing new. It exhibits your consciousness, what batters are doing,” Harmanpreet said.

“I’ll again my gamers, she hasn’t finished one thing outdoors the foundations. After the primary sport we mentioned, we wished to do very well, we now have that a lot potential. We need to proceed this type of cricket.” At the post-match presser, she also pointed out how India suffered when Smriti Mandhana was given out in the third match of their T20I series, which England won 2-1, despite the ball touching the ground after Sophie Ecclestone went for the catch.

Very recently only the ICC reiterated the dismissal was completely legitimate, moving it from ‘unfair play’ to ‘run out’.

The MCC Law 41.16.1 states: “If the non-striker is out of his/her floor at any time from the second the ball comes into play till the moment when the bowler would usually have been anticipated to launch the ball, the non-striker is liable to be run out.” Weighing in on the run out, England’s senior seamer Kate Cross, who grabbed 4/26 with the ball, said this sort of dismissal will always divide opinion.

“I feel it is a dismissal that is at all times going to divide opinion. That’s all that is ever going to get stated about it: some individuals are going to love it, some folks aren’t.

“Deepti chose to dismiss Charlie Dean that way. I’m more disappointed for Charlie Dean that she couldn’t get a fifty at Lord’s today because she looked set to do that,” Cross stated.

“If we’re looking at the real positives, then maybe that’s the only way they could have got Deano out today.

“Losing any sport of cricket is disappointing. Ultimately it is Deepti’s selection how she goes about that, and we have misplaced that sport of cricket. What we did say within the dressing room was that we did not lose that sport of cricket due to that final wicket,” Cross added.

A teary-eyed Dean, after an preliminary present of anger when she additionally threw her bat to the bottom, composed herself and shook arms with the Indian gamers.