England cricket captain Heather Knight has accused India of “lying” over claims Charlie Dean was warned repeatedly before her controversial ‘Mankad’ dismissal at the weekend.

Dean was run out at the non-striker’s end by bowler Deepti Sharma as she entered her delivery stride, as England attempted to close in on an unlikely victory in the women’s one-day international at Lord’s on Saturday.

The ‘Mankad’ dismissal was upheld by the third umpire and sealed a 16-run win and 3-0 series sweep for India.

Dean had thrown her bat to the ground in tears as the crowd booed the manner of India’s victory, which is not against the rules but is considered by some not to be in the spirit of the game.

On her team’s arrival in Kolkata, Sharma told reporters that Dean, who was playing a potentially match-winning innings of 47 at the time, had been warned “repeatedly” about encroaching up the pitch.

Sharma said: “It was a plan, because we had warned her [for leaving the crease early] repeatedly.

“We did things as per the rules and guidelines.”

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Knight, who is out injured with a hip-joint injury, responded on Twitter to Sharma’s comments.

She tweeted: “The game is over, Charlie was dismissed legitimately. India were deserved winners of the match and the series. But no warnings were given. 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.”

Sky Sports News contacted the ECB regarding Knight’s tweets but it said it did not wish to comment.

ESPNcricinfo analyst Peter Della Penna reviewed Dean’s entire innings following the match and found that she left her crease early 72 times in total.

Cricket commentator Charles Dagnall told Sky Sports: “No laws were broken, absolutely not, Deepti is well within her rights not to warn Charlie Dean and run her out at the non-striker’s end and that is a completely legitimate dismissal. Nothing was done wrong.

“It’s obviously a rare occurrence. I can remember four ‘Mankad’ incidents in the professional era.”

Dagnall had asked India captain Harmanpreet Kaur for her view on what happened at the tail end of the game and had a different response than Sharma’s in Kolkata.

He said: “It was a talking point and so when it came to the post-match press conference, I obviously had to ask the question [to India captain Harmanpreet Kaur]. And I was very specific about the way I asked the question.

“She gave me an answer that wasn’t an answer to the question, so I asked her again, and I thought she responded brilliantly. And then we moved on.

“Not once in that time did she mention any warnings given by her or Deepti to the batter Charlie Dean or the umpire at all.

“Deepti Sharma then gets asked when she lands in Kolkata and then mentions that there were loads of warnings given. Now had she turned around and said ‘I didn’t give a warning’, then there’s no story.”

However, Dagnall said that the England captain should not “be going on her personal social media calling Deepti a liar” – there should only be an ECB statement where there is an upset.

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