‘2019 WC final was over 2 years ago…I still till this day revive countless messages calling me all sorts from Indian fans’: Ben Stokes on Harsha Bhogle’s Twitter thread over Deepti Sharma’s criticism

The dialogue round Deepti Sharma’s dismissal of Charlie Dean in the course of the third England-India ODI at Lord’s doesn’t appear to die down, does it?

On Friday, broadcaster Harsha Bhogle took to Twitter to criticise the response of English media and cricket fraternity to the dismissal, referring to it ‘as a cutural thing’.

“I remain disturbed by the vitriol directed towards Deepti. She played by the laws of the game and criticism of what she did must stop,” he wrote on his social media. England males’s Test captain Ben Stokes has now responded to Bhogle’s Twitter thread.

“Harsha….2019 WC final was over 2 years ago, I still till this day revive countless messages calling me all sorts from Indian fans, does this disturb you?,” Stokes quote tweeted the Indian broadcaster.

Stokes has been on the receiving finish over his dive within the remaining over of the 2019 World Cup remaining towards New Zealand that led to a boundary from a deflection off his bat, ultimately taking the match to Super Over, which England received on boundary rely.

The latter replied to the 31-year-old by writing, “Well, you were not at fault on that one so with you there. On the reaction in England to the non-striker backing up, I think it is what you are told when you learn the game and so, part of culture. Very happy to chat about it one day if you have a moment.”

Further on Bhogle’s reference to the incident being a cultural factor, Stokes wrote, “Is this a culture thing?? ….absolutely not, I receive messages regarding the overthrows from people all over world, as people all over the world have made comment’s on the Mankad dismissal, not just people who are English.”

The debate on bowler working out the batter on the non-striker’s finish has been trending throughout the cricket neighborhood because the second Deepti Sharma dislodged the bails on the Lord’s Cricket Stadium to dismiss Charlie Dean and full a 3-0 ODI clear sweep for India final month.

Recently in a press convention, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur had stated, “We were noticing Charlie Dean was getting out from the crease in the last couple of games. She was taking the long strides outside the popping crease and was taking undue advantage.”