Most Controversial Moments in Cricket History?

[gggsaffa12]

Just watched this video and got me thinking, what is the most controversial moment in cricket history?? The underarm balll? CWC2019 final being controversially awarded to England?? The Aussie ball tampering scandal??

What are your thoughts?

Video:

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This one time Shakib Al Hasan did [insert whatever you want]

 

[GIMH]

The Bairstow ‘stumping’ imo

 

[trundler]

This one time Shakib Al Hasan did [insert whatever you want]

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That was wholesome.

 

[Coronis]

That time WG put the bails back on and kept playing.

 

[Aidan11]

Creating a hundred ball tournament.

 

[Prince EWS]

Gotta be underarm, surely.

 

[Prince EWS]

That time WG put the bails back on and kept playing.

Haha I think the noteworthy thing about that story was actually how uncontroversial it actually was.

 

[GIMH]

Gotta be underarm, surely.

Bodyline?

 

[Prince EWS]

Bodyline?

I thought about that but it wasn't really a 'moment' as such. Maybe Oldfield getting hit?

 

[Aidan11]

Packer
Mike Gatting/Shakoor Rana
George Davis protesters damaging Headingley

 

[Prince EWS]

Dale Steyn bopping Mohammad Shami over his head for six.

 

[OverratedSanity]

India getting robbed by cheating aussies and corrupt umpires at Sydney and then having to face false accusations of racism leading to the great Sachin saving an innocent man from having his reputation tarnished.

 

[Howe_zat]

Haha I think the noteworthy thing about that story was actually how uncontroversial it actually was.

If it even happened like. There's the swirl of apocrypha around it, isn't there? Every time I hear about that quote it's rarely mentioned who the bowler is or where the match was. Sometimes it's 'they've come to see me bat, not you umpire' when given out lbw and not even bowled.

Geoffrey Moorhouse in his 2020 Wisden retrospective and Jarrod Kimber in this Cricket Monthly article never mention this incident at all despite the rest of these articles being more or less hit peices. I think it's likely that both writers looked into it and decided that actually trying to source this was more trouble than it's worth, so I'm happy to relegate it to the bin of urban myth for now.

 

[Prince EWS]

If it even happened like. There's the swirl of apocrypha around it, isn't there? Every time I hear about that quote it's rarely mentioned who the bowler is or where the match was. Sometimes it's 'they've come to see me bat, not you umpire' when given out lbw and not even bowled.

Geoffrey Moorhouse in his 2020 Wisden retrospective and Jarrod Kimber in this Cricket Monthly article never mention this incident at all despite the rest of these articles being more or less hit peices. I think it's likely that both writers looked into it and decided that actually trying to source this was more trouble than it's worth, so I'm happy to relegate it to the bin of urban myth for now.

This stood out to me in the Kimber article, in light on more recent events...


Grace ran out Sammy Jones in a Test match when Jones went down the pitch to do some gardening. How would the great and good who trickle through the Grace gates early on the morning of a Lord's Test handle their captain doing the same now? Or an opposition captain? They wouldn't have to pop out the champagne corks, they'd inhale them with violent shocked breaths.

 

[Molehill]

I think if something happens that even your own team mates are ashamed of, that has to take the biscuit. So I guess that rules out the sandpaper and gives it to the under arm.

 

[Howe_zat]

This stood out to me in the Kimber article, in light on more recent events...


Grace ran out Sammy Jones in a Test match when Jones went down the pitch to do some gardening. How would the great and good who trickle through the Grace gates early on the morning of a Lord's Test handle their captain doing the same now? Or an opposition captain? They wouldn't have to pop out the champagne corks, they'd inhale them with violent shocked breaths.

A level of bastardry reserved only for the legendarily antiethical man of privelege and the modern Australian, it turns out.

 

[Shri]

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am i the shakib of CW

 

[Ali TT]

Basil D'Oliveira being not picked and then picked for the 1968/9 tour of South Africa must surely top the lot. It lead to the eventual banning of South Africa from cricket and slow erosion of the authority of apartheid. So controversial in a good way (eventually, the MCC hardly covered themselves in glory).

As for things happening on the pitch, while under arm bowling and sandpaper gate were all notable, I'd go for Sylvester Clarke being pelted by objects on the boundary then retaliating by chucking a brick and hospitalising a spectator.