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| Why the IPL match had to be stopped after the 'Nutbolts were thrown at the fielder' no-ball controversy |
In the famous Indian city of Hyderabad, there was no rain, no bad weather, and no problem with the lights, but suddenly the 58th match of the IPL had to be stopped temporarily.
The match was being played between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Supergiants Lucknow (LSG) and both teams needed to win the match to keep their hopes alive in the tournament, so it was surprising that the competition was tough. was not
Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat first. Everything was going well that in the 19th over, the field umpire declared a no-ball by Owass, in front of South African wicketkeeper-batsman Henrik Klaasen. This ball was apparently passing above the waist, which is why it was declared a nine-ball.
However, against this decision, the Lucknow team took a referral from the third umpire and the third umpire declared the ball a legal delivery, which neither Klaasen nor the Hyderabad crowd liked.
A ball later the game had to be stopped temporarily and the game was stopped for about ten minutes. Such a reaction to an umpire's decision was rare.
The umpire's decision apparently did not go down well with the Hyderabad crowd and they started throwing objects towards the field and towards the seats of the Lucknow players. According to a report, he also saw the nuts and bolts.
The Hyderabad crowd threw nuts and bolts towards LSG's dugout, tweeted Mufaddil Vohra, citing Cricbuzz.
On this, Jonty Rhodes, the fielding coach of LSG and the famous South African player of his time, wrote that 'Don't throw towards the dugout, but towards the players. He hit Pririk Monkid on the head while he was fielding.
Jonty Rhodes wrote in response to a tweet by a user named Naveen Sorgham, 'Clean as mud dude.'
Describing the events on the field, Naveen wrote, 'Something is happening here. Klaasen looks towards the LSG dugout and mutters, not happy with the last-ball decision.
"The field umpire is heading to the dugout to calm things down."
He writes that 'Andy Flower is also talking to the umpire. It gets worse as two South African players Klaassen and de Kock are also in the talks. Both field umpires are now almost at the boundary. Has anything been thrown toward the LSG dugout? Anyway, whatever happened has been resolved, and now back to cricket.'
Some say that the game was stopped because someone threw a slipper at Gautam Gambhir and he was chanting 'Kohli Kohli'.
Kohli Kohli noise
Hyderabad viewers did not stop there. As Lucknow team mentor and former India captain Gautam Gambhir came on the scene, chants of 'Kohli Kohli' started.
It should be noted that in the recent past, bitter verbal scenes were seen between Kohli and Gautam Gambhir. It is obvious that the two players don't have much synergy and there is a kind of rivalry that gets expressed from time to time.
When the LSG team won the last-ball toss in Bangalore, Gautam Gambhir signaled the crowd to be quiet, which did not go down well with the Bangalore fans.
Then when Kohli's team Royal Challengers Bangalore arrived in Lucknow to play their second match, Kohli incited the crowd to make a lot of noise and the match was played with great enthusiasm and then after RCB's win, there was bitter talk and reconciliation among the players. A series appeared which got a good place in the Indian media.
Meanwhile, there is no official statement about the Hyderabad match but cricket fans do not consider it a good omen.
Some people have written that the rest of the IPL matches should not be played in Hyderabad, while a couple of users have even written that the World Cup match should not be played in Hyderabad.
However, thanks to a good inning by Klassen and Abdul Samad, the Hyderabad team scored 182 runs for the loss of six wickets, which Lucknow got four balls early due to the fiery batting of Nicholas Pooran.
Nicholas Pooran scored 44 runs off 13 balls with the help of four sixes and three fours and remained unbeaten while on the other hand, Prerik Mankid scored 64 runs not out with seven fours and two sixes. This is how he responded to the audience of Hyderabad with his bat.
The situation now is that Sunrisers Hyderabad has three matches remaining but their hopes of reaching the top four teams are almost gone while the Lucknow team is currently in the fourth position and their situation is promising.