Bechara Mulvantrai Himmatlal (urf Vinoo) - badnaam-tareen kirkitar

The great Vinoo Mankad played 44 tests for India in the ’40s and ’50s, scoring over 2,000 runs @ 31.5 and taking 162 wickets @ 32.3 He also scored over 11,000 first class runs and took almost 800 first-class wickets.

He is one of only 3 players to have his name up on the Lord’s batting and bowling honours boards for performances in the same match. (The other two are Garry Sobers for the Rest of The World against England in 1970, and Botham against a lacklustre Pakistan in 1978.)

The Lord’s website has this to say about him:

Vinoo Mankad is one of the very few names that appear on both the batting and bowling Honours Boards at Lord’s, and remarkably, he achieved this feat with a century and a five-wicket haul in the same game. 

Playing for India against England in 1952, Mankad produced an all-round performance that wrote his name into Lord’s history forever, making 184 opening the batting in India’s second innings, which followed his 5/196 earlier in the match. 

In the words of Len Hutton, he “played England on his own.” 

Sadly, he is most often remembered of late for his running out, during the 1947 Sydney Test, of the Australian opener Bill Brown while backing up at the non-striker’s end. That incident led to the term “being mankaded” entering the cricketing lexicon.

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Excerpts from 

It's idiotic to not mankad a straying non-striker 
You don't warn a batsman before stumping him, so why warn him before he steals a run? 

Ian Chappell
Cricinfo - June 15, 2014 
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/752417.html 

Ian Bell should have been asked to go read the laws of cricket instead of being
allowed to bat again after being dismissed by India at Trent Bridge in 2011

Sri Lanka’s captain, Angelo Mathews, was not repentant in the lead-up to the Test at Lord’s when discussing the mankad of Jos Buttler in an ODI. And nor should he be. 

How come when the administrators blunder in changing the law, and the batsmen take advantage by cheating, it’s the fielding side that is vilified? 

Under the old law it was straightforward. If the non-striker backed up correctly, he couldn’t be mankaded. Anybody who was mankaded under that law deserved his punishment for 1) being stupid, and 2) not putting a high enough value on his wicket. I’m surprised more non-strikers haven’t been mankaded and that fielding sides bother with the so-called “courtesy” of warning the batsman first. 

Do you warn a batsman before you stump him? No. Then why warn him before you mankad him? If you play by the laws you’ll be contesting the game in the right spirit. And by the way, how is cheating at the non-striker’s end upholding the spirit? 

In 2011 at Trent Bridge, when Ian Bell was guilty of gross negligence in walking off the field at tea time - thinking the ball was dead - and MS Dhoni ran him out, it was the Indian captain who was expected to grovel. Dhoni should have told Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower: “Bugger off back to your dressing room and tell [Bell] to take greater care of his wicket next time.”