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Piers Morgan says 'pathetic' India cricketers should be 'ashamed' of controversial win

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Piers Morgan has said the Indian women's cricket team should be "ashamed of themselves" after Deepti Sharma left Charlie Dean in tears on Saturday.

In the final One Day International, England needed 17 runs to win with one wicket left while Dean was run out at the non-striker's end.

As Sharma made her run-up, she stopped with the Englishwoman already walking towards the striker's end.Sharma simply knocked the stumps off while Dean was none the wiser, a move infamously dubbed 'Mankad' after the Indian cricketer of the same name, who took a similar wicket during the 1947/48 tour of Australia.READ MORE: Roger Federer appeared in top 10 of Forbes' highest-earning athletes for 12 years straight Boos rang around Lord's after the controversial action while Morgan took to social media in a fit of rage. "The whole India team should be ashamed of themselves," he wrote."Absolutely pathetic way to 'win' a cricket match."The TV personality was not the only one left furious, with England star Sam Billings also taking to Twitter.

He posted: "There's surely not a person who has played the game that thinks this is acceptable. Just not cricket."Well within the laws but not in the spirit.

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