LONDON: England Women’s cricket team captain Heather Knight joined the ongoing debate regarding the controversial end of the third Women’s ODI between India and England.

The debate sparked yet again when India’s bowler Deepti Sharma, who mankad England’s Charlie Dean to complete whitewash over the hosts, said that the team had ‘repeatedly warned’ Dean for leaving the crease too early.

“We did things as per the rules and guidelines,” Deepti said after landing in India.

“We told the umpires as well, but she was there [outside the crease]. We couldn’t do much,” she was quoted as saying by the Indian media.

Deepti’s statement, however, did not go well with Knight, who refuted the former’s claims about repeated warnings and said that ‘India shouldn’t feel the need to justify it by lying.’

“The game is over, Charlie was dismissed legitimately. India were deserved winners of the match and the series. But no warnings were given,” Knight wrote on Twitter.

“They don’t need to be given, so it hasn’t made the dismissal any less legitimate.

“But if they’re comfortable with the decision to affect the run out, India shouldn’t feel the need to justify it by lying about warnings.”

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