5 great on-field gestures by Indian cricketers

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#3 When Tendulkar, Sehwag let Thirimanne off even after the warning

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During a group encounter of the 2012 Commonwealth Bank Series between India and Sri Lanka at Brisbane, Sachin Tendulkar played a perfect ambassador of the game of cricket, when he asked stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag to withdraw a run-out appeal against Sri Lanka batsman Lahiru Thirimanne.

When on non-striker's end, Thirimanne repeatedly kept leaving his crease before the bowler released the ball. An irked Ravichandran Ashwin finally spotted it and dislodged the bail in the 39.3 over and appealed for a run-out.

The on-field umpires Paul Reiffel and Billy Bowden appealed to the third umpire but Tendulkar rushed to Sehwag and asked him to withdraw the appeal.

Sehwag said, "Because if we appealed and the umpire gave him out, then somebody will criticise that, you know, that was not the spirit of the game".

"It's soft, but that's the way we are," he said.

Thirimanne (62) ended up being Sri Lanka's highest run-scorer of the match and India failed to chase the target of 290 and lost by 51 runs.

The Australian media had named this type of dismissals as 'Mankading' after former India batsman Vinoo Mankad, who was the first cricketer to execute it when in 1947-48, during India's tour to Australia, Mankad ran out Bill Brown in the second Test.

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