For all the brouhaha and rumpus over the legality of Akash Deep's delivery that cleaned up Joe Root lock stock and barrel in the just-concluded Edgbaston Test, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the final word on cricket laws, seems to believe that there is nothing wrong with the dismissal.

The hallowed body seems to suggest that the law is where the foot lands. It insists that it has always interpreted this to point out the importance of the very first moment any part of the foot makes contact with the ground. So even if some of the foot subsequently lands over the line, if the first thing to land is inside, it is legal.

Akash Deep clean bowled Root off the second delivery of the tenth over with the veteran English batsman totally bamboozled by an incoming delivery from the Indian pacer. But moments later footage emerged of the bowler's back foot going wide off the crease leading to some sort of ruckus in a section of the media that it was a backfoot no ball, and therefore illegal.