Why is there stigma involved in running out a non-striker? Because it's all about power

Was it premeditated? Did Deepti Sharma intend to even bowl the ball? Why didn't she do what she did sooner and not when it got really tight if she was so concerned about the laws of the game? Is she comfortable winning that way?

These make for a pretty impressive and incisive set of questions, which have been put to the India bowler and captain. A third set of questions, though, deserves to be asked more than they are being asked at the moment.

Why was Charlie Dean out of her crease? Why was she not watching the ball? Did she premeditate stepping out of her crease before the ball was bowled? Did she ever intend to stay in? How many times did she do it? Is her batting partner comfortable scoring her runs that way? Is this an individual thing or the team plan?

Dean did nothing wrong. There should be no stigma attached to being out of your crease. Except that there are consequences for it in the laws of the game, and you should be able to live with them when they apply Except for Peter Della Penna's genius Twitter thread, Dean and England have hardly faced the kind of scrutiny and questioning of their intentions that India have had to face.