Not the first time: English player Jos Buttler has been 'Mankaded' before
History repeats.
Jos Buttler prolific English batter who is currently playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL is known for his big strokemaking. Buttler is almost a force of nature when he gets going, unleashing his power to hit balls freely both straight down the ground and square off wicket.
But he is also known for taking starts when the bowler is about to deliver the ball. Make no mistake, Buttler is not the only guy in world cricket who does that. Infact it is ridiculously common considering the rules clearly mention the possible pitfall from it. But players still do it with a tacit assumption that bowlers wouldn't be Mankading them considering the taboo associated with it.
But, Jos Buttler was unlucky to be dismissed not once, but twice by Mankading. Call it bad luck, or just bowlers'across the world keeping a track of his movement, literally, very rarely would you find a player getting run-out in such a fashion two times within five years.
At Edgbaston, in June 2014, Sachithra Senanayake got Jos Buttler Mankaded after giving him two warnings. And now history has repeated itself as tragedy, when Buttler playing for his IPL team Rajasthan Royals got Mankaded by KXIP captain Ravichandran Ashwin.
However, unlike last time, Buttler wasn't warned by Ashwin and he had barely stepped forward when Ashwin managed to get him run-out at the non-striker's end.