Smriti Mandhana On Deepti Sharma-Beaumont Incident: 'You Come To Lord's And....'

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Smriti Mandhana discussed Deepti Sharma's controversial run-out of Charlie Dean at Lord's in 2022, saying that it's now a joke in the Indian team.
Smriti Mandhana said on Saturday that Deepti Sharma's relationship with the Lord's Cricket Ground has become a popular joke in the Indian dressing room.
Deepti ran out Charlie Dean at the non-striker's end here in 2022, which caused a lot of controversy and 'Spirit of Cricket' debate. On Saturday, during the second of three ODIs between India and England at the same ground, Tammy Beaumont got lucky when her body came in the way of Jemimah Rodrigues' run-out attempt.
Again, Deepti was the bowler. India appealed for Obstructing The Field, which is a legal dismissal in cricket if the umpires determine that the batter's action was intentional but Beaumont was cleared. She was at 25 and went on to score nine more runs and England won the rain-affected match by eight wickets.
Mandhana was asked about not just the Beaumont appeal but also the Dean wicket. She laughed it out but didn't seem too amused by it.
'It doesn't happen, right, [that] You come to Lord's and that question is not asked? I think we didn't really think anything about all of that incident," Mandhana said after the match. 'Only when today, I think, there was one random appeal for Tammy Beaumont when that happened. And, again, Deepti was bowling. That's when we cracked the joke. The whole match, last time when we won, of course, it was overshadowed quite a lot because of that one incident. But I would say the way we all actually played cricket in terms of that whole series. One incident cannot overshadow it. And the chat was only about how good we played and we have to just keep continuing that."
Mandhana also rued India's batting performance, as they were reduced to 143/8 in 29 overs in the first innings.
'I think as a batting unit, we couldn't adapt to the conditions quickly. We tried to play some shots which were maybe not, like, it was not easy on these sort of wickets, especially Lord's," Mandhana told reporters at the post-match press conference. Mandhana did admit that prolonged rain break before the start of the game did affect the concentration. Rain curtailed matches are always very hard in terms of getting your focus right because, of course, it was a long wait period. And losing the toss in these sort of matches doesn't help a lot. But, yeah, it's a good test for all of us. There are a few things which we could have gotten better," she said.
The series is now tied 1-1. The teams will play the decider on July 22.
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July 20, 2025, 19:40 IST
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