Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan has accused Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli of 'fake fielding' during their ICC T20 World Cup 2022 defeat at Adelaide, which has sparked a massive war of words on Twitter between cricket fans of both countries.
Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan has accused Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli of 'fake fielding', which went unreported by the on-field umpires and cost his team five potentially crucial penalty runs in their ICC T20 World Cup 2022 clash on Wednesday in Adelaide.
Bangladesh fell short by five runs after being set a revised target of 151 in 16 overs following a brief spell of rain. Although skipper Shakib Al Hasan stated that his side lost fair and square, Nurul, who kept Bangladesh alive in the game in Arshdeep Singh's final over, criticised the umpires after the defeat.
Nurul Hasan has claimed that the on-field umpires had missed an incident of "fake fielding" from Virat Kohli, which could have resulted in five potentially crucial penalty runs for Bangladesh! pic.twitter.com/naWCVnCfbg
— Thimira Navod (@ImThimira07)"Definitely, the wet outfield did have an impact when we restarted the game. But there was also a fake throw which could have got us five runs, but we didn't even get that," Nurul said in Bengali at the mixed zone, indirectly accusing umpires Chris Brown and Marais Erasmus of overlooking the incident.
The occurrence to which Nurul was alluding took place in the seventh over. Arshdeep delivered the ball from deep, and Kohli pretended to relay it at the non-striker's end while fielding at point, according to a video recording. The fielder closest to the track catches the ball from deep and makes a relay throw at the stumps.
Bangladesh's batters Litton Das and Najmul Hossain Shanto did not even look at Kohli, and that's why Nurul's argument raises questions.
Pertaining to unfair play, the ICC playing conditions rule 41.5 prohibits the fielding team from "deliberate, distraction, deception or obstruction of the batter". If the umpire determines that a regulation has been broken, he may call it a dead ball and award five penalty runs.
Nurul accused Kohli of fake fielding, but he neglected to consider the "distraction and deception" portion of the regulation. Shanto and Litton weren't distracted or tricked because they were not looking at the former Indian skipper. On the contrary, there is a possibility that Nurul might be sanctioned for criticising the match officials.
Following this accusation, a war of words erupted between Indian and Bangladesh cricket fans on Twitter. While Bangladesh fans dubbed Kohli a 'cheater', fans of the Men in Blue raised questions over why the two batters on the crease did not raise the issue then.
Here's a look at some of the reactions of the micro-blogging site:
On-Field are always when it comes to Only take Dictation from Kohli https://t.co/abOyDuuxtn
— moeen (@moeen_faruqi)Why did he not protest then n there after losing match much need excuses wanted to show their country men https://t.co/qwVccDPZDM
— Vicky (@Vicky77798270)providing cover to Indian cheating practices. https://t.co/Q0zbbblqoe
— Tariq Mir (@TSM_Humanist)Piece of shit
Check the rules before barking any shit here https://t.co/f9tPfv2hsp pic.twitter.com/N8Thbjyo7I
Oh the whining 😆 https://t.co/DS41ygT3ql
— ℝ💫 (@durga_putri)Virat Kohli is a cheater https://t.co/rzcng8pVJm
— Shoaib (@AbbasiHun)Graceful in losses = not found in Bangladesh/Pakistan’s dictionary 🙃 https://t.co/QmbisHCEnq
— Gautam Vishwanathan (@GautamV74)
Biggest cheater in world cricket
shame on you 🖐️ https://t.co/Pe3E5ZkNPU
This is something that has been done for decades by all teams to play mind games with the batsmen. Nothing illegal about it. https://t.co/aN58s4lyRI
— Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 (@Mohansinha)Even this man passover all records, he always try to behave against the spirit of game and try to do some unprofessional things in ground which keeps him far away from professional sports gentleman like Younus Khan, Kane Williamson etc. https://t.co/m2plctQ9qa
— Mehmood Saif (@iamjustmsk)A Clearly Fraustation Jealously Of Choker Bangladesh Cricket Player's 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 https://t.co/vE7Zu3pKBS
— 👑 Virat Kohli Empire 👑 (@Virat91721823)The only legendary thing he’s capable of is cheating. https://t.co/XUUeQOsjrY
— Baila Nisar (@BailaNisar)Bangladesh will soon declare that no Bangladeshi batsman can become out through bowled, caught, lbw, stumping or run out. If a batsman is out, then it’s cheating https://t.co/7cJB4LSNpC
— KSR (@__kosire)Just hand over the World Cup already, it’s pointless playing for it at this point. https://t.co/Lb0XmtgXQh
— Itssalahheree (@Salah_Shakeel)Its not fake fielding man..he just tried like shadow batting... Once he thrown in New zealand same like that... Fake fielding is like 1.Kumar Sangakkara 2. De cock.. and also That from Virat had ZERO impact
— PAVAN KANTAMNENI (@pavankantamneni)So what they can do any amendments in rules owns not for the first time https://t.co/tGjYh0umau
— Aliza Chaudhary 🇵🇰 (@Aliza_Javed_)Kohli showed his awareness and presence of mind in field to benefit his own team. If Nurul Hasan is such a fool then it's not Kohli's problem at all.
— इनसेन 👊🏻 (@t4_twitt)BCCI better buy the trophy 🏆 https://t.co/zpcS3ABj7L
— Muhammad Imran “محمد عمران” (@ImranSuch)This really wasnt a big deal Im sure did it in jest and nothing else.. If we implement every lil cricketing law it will definitely take the spirit & the soul of cricket out of the game... And if this is how wants to win matches, that says a lot abt them too.. https://t.co/f9W2Tode9e
— SinnerMan (@LankanRealist)Bangladeshi Cricketer Najmul Hossain Shanto Protested instantly but the umpire denied it.
The funny thing is - Video footage shows 2nd umpire was watching directly what Virat was doing but no punishment !!!!! https://t.co/G4Hw2JErAY pic.twitter.com/P2AK5qAA2z
(With inputs from PTI)