After more controversy at the Under-19 cricket World Cup involving the West Indies, Derek Pringle explores the prickly world of the spirit of cricket

Coincidence? It doesn’t look like it. Just as West Indies U19s faced a must-win match in their World Cup group match, as they did in the 2016 tournament, they chose to dismiss an opponent in controversial circumstance, albeit one within the Laws.
In 2016, it was the ‘Mankadding’ (bowler running out the non-striker for leaving his crease) of Zimbabwe’s last batsman in a tight match that brought attention to that nebul...