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A different angle on this lovely thread by @ovshake42 on Mankading
When did they start using "Mankad" or "Mankading" as a verb ? I have access to very few papers, so may well be wrong, but it appears to start in Aussie newspapers only from the late 70s
Griffith below in 1968 https://twitter.com/ovshake42/status/1337981294689468423
When did they start using "Mankad" or "Mankading" as a verb ? I have access to very few papers, so may well be wrong, but it appears to start in Aussie newspapers only from the late 70s
Griffith below in 1968 https://twitter.com/ovshake42/status/1337981294689468423
Charlie Griffith ran out Ian Redpath in the SCG Test in January 1969. Most papers mention the Brown incident.
Age goes as far as saying that Griffith "pulled a Vinoo Mankad"
Age goes as far as saying that Griffith "pulled a Vinoo Mankad"
In 1975 January, Greg Chappell ran out Brian Luckhurst at the bowling end in an ODI. Mankad appears in the headlines this time
Age has this picture of the Luckhurst dismissal
In the obituary of Mankad in @smh in September 1978, Kersi Meher-homji uses the phrase unambigously - Mankad ran Brown out twice, "thus was coined the phrase "to be Mankaded" "
Later that season, Alan Hurst ran out Sikander Bakht. A letter writer now referred tongue-in-cheek to Mankad, who "warned Bill Brown before "Hursting" him"
That's all. It would be interesting to find sources earlier than 1978 that use "mankading" as a verb.
