5 most controversial moments on cricket field

1. India Vs South Africa in 2015

Country: India in Cuttack

In India if match is played than crowd attendance at ground is very high, because Indian people love cricket. Not even in India, at any country in world, Indian crowd are there in huge amount.

Crowds are pays their money to watch a beautiful game and they always want their money’s worth. But if the team does not respond in accordance to their aspirations and wishes, you would find them showing their anger at maximum amplitude.

And same incidence is happen when the match is played between South Africa and India at Cuttack in 2015.

South African team bowled Indian team at their 2^nd lowest T20 total 92. Then crowd’s behavior was no exception.

While South African team was chased a measly total, the crowd once again threw bottles on the ground to disrupt the proceedings.

Then result is that the players had to be taken out and the police was to take the charge of the action. And this discontinuity went down for about 15 minutes before the South Africa would come back to chase the rest of the target.

2. India Vs Sir Lanka in 1996

Country: India in Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

I thing Indian people are biggest fans in world of cricket, even it is consider that cricket is almost religion in India. If the occasion of world cup than amount of crowd will be huge in any country.

If when India hosting the world cup then it’s became a supreme festival. In 1996 India and Pakistan combine was host the world cup and Indian team were favorite to won the world cup.

India in semifinal and they had match against Sir Lanka at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Sir Lanka put 252 on board and it’s looking achievable to Indian team, because they have good batting unit. Sachin was middling the ball, run are came very fast rate, India reach 98 runs by lost only 1 wicket in just 22.3 over.

But there was dramatic change was came in match, that’s Sachin was out stumped by Sir Lankan wicket keepers.

This wicket created the panic not only in dressing room but also in crowds also. We did not understand what happened after that, a dramatic collapse and wickets continued to tumble and there is horrible picture on scorecard that was India has 120-8.

The crowd simply couldn’t digest the fact that there team was going out of the competition empty handed. The crowd sits in the stands started throwing bottles, newspaper on the ground to interrupt the play.

And some people also did fire in seats sets. To see that moment India player was cry that moment.

And this awful act continued and a stand was set on fire by few fanatics. This was a very embarrassing and shameless situation not just for the India cricket but for the world cricket. Situation was so much critical and the police came to handle that.

Players were taken out of the ground by guards. The matters impair to a level finally the match referee Clive Lloyd had to award the game to Sri Lanka.

3. Pakistan Vs India in 1999

Country: India in 1999 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

As you know match between India and Pakistan then atmosphere became hot. Match between India and Pakistan is always entertaining or the crowd is huge on stands and they cheering for own country.

It was the game in world cricket that will be remembered for the heroics of Javagal Srinath, Shoaib Akhtar and Saeed Anwar.

The crowd in Eden Gardens were cheering for little master Sachin. And Shoaib Akthar and Sachin were front of them. But incidentally Sachin was out on golden duck against Shoaib Akhtar.

After seen the slow motion on screen, the crowd of 70,000 shouted “cheat-cheat” at Shoaib Akhtar.

Few people moved to playing ground, the crowd threw bottles, shoes at Akthar. After the umpire announced tea break for a while.

Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sachin came out and request to crowd for calm down.

But crowd started burning newspapers and throwing bottles, shoes and fruits towards the ground against the score 231/9.

When the crowd did not stop to done this then on the entire crowd had removed forcefully before restarting the game.

4. Pakistan Vs Sir Lanka in 2015

Country: Sir Lanka in 2015 at  Premedasa stadium at Colombo.

As you know the atmosphere between Pakistan and Sri Lanka is far-off from being enemy and there is hardly any needle between the two sides.

In recent past they have played a lot of series with each other and have got along very well at each occasion.

In the summer of 2015, Pakistan toured Sri Lanka for a bilateral series. This time around, the performance of Lankan team was dismal throughout the series. The 3rd ODI at was held on Premedasa stadium at Colombo.

Sri Lanka were chasing a huge target of 300 plus and there batting was crumbling like house of cards. Then the dramatic conversation happened between local fans and Pakistani fans become so awful.

Some fans were fight each other and for stopped them police was came. After that people starts threw newspaper, stone and bottles on ground continuously for 30 minutes.

The match stopped for a while because a stone came inside the stadium near the players. For this 4 people were arrested after that.

After the match Sir Lankan former captain Mahela Jayawardena tweeted “We should take results in correct spirit and enjoy the game. Very poor from some spectators. Hope it doesn’t reflect on all SL fans.”

5. West Indies Vs Australia in 1999

Country: West Indies in Kensington Oval at Barbbdos in 1999.

West have best cricket history in past, So West Indian nation takes lots of plume on their rich cricket history whose linage can be traced back to the likes of Sir Garfield Sobers, Clive Lloyd, Sir Vivian Richards, Malcolm Marshall and others.

And that is most important reasons that they had a very emotional narrative towards cricket. And some time emotions cross the deadlines and would damage the government property.

The same was happened in Kensington Oval at Barbbdos in 1999 during the one day match between Windies and Australia. Kangaroos set 253 for Windies, they chase the target smoothly. At one time Windies have 138/1 after 29^th over.

Then Jimmy Adams called Sherwin Campbell for went quick single but he was run out the result of bowler Brendan Julian collided with Campbell fell down on the ground and couldn’t complete the single. The crowd went furious over the instance and asking started bullying the Aussie bowler.

After that they threw bottles, stones on the ground. When Steve Waugh sense the danger, he took his team out of the ground.

Police came to handle this matter. But between all this, Aussies had agreed to call back Campbell as gesture of sportsmanship. 

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