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The ICC T20 World Cup, which decides the champion of international T20 cricket, is being held in Australia for the 8th time in its history. Usually, the T20 World Cup is famous for the sixes and fours that the batsmen hit as an action cannonball. But sometimes incidents that fans don’t like happen on and off the field and lead to controversies. So let’s take a look at some of the controversial events in the history of T20 World Cup cricket:
5. Will not kneel: In last year’s T20 World Cup, players from all teams knelt on one leg before the start of the match to protest the recent apartheid attacks in cricket as a sign of awareness and protest.
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Quinton de Kock refused to do so in the match against the West Indies, especially when South Africa had regularly followed the tournament with black players. Captain Bauma said that he was fired for his own reasons.
Quinton de Kock makes himself unvailable for today’s game because of his stand on Black Lives Matter movement????
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But it was later revealed that he was sacked for refusing to kneel, causing controversy. De Kock later apologized to everyone for it and repented that he would happily do it again.
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4. Double Pitch: David Warner, who scored 289 runs in last year’s T20 World Cup, won the Man of the Series award for playing a key role in Australia’s first trophy win. In the semi-final against Pakistan on that tour, a ball from the team’s 8th over bowled by Mohammad Hafeez slipped his hand and bounced double and went off the limited pitch.
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Warner, who should have left it unhit as per the rules, intentionally came off the pitch and hit a six which caused controversy. Warner then faced a lot of criticism for intentionally hitting a ball that slipped out of the pitch despite the umpire declaring it a no ball.
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3. Secular Attack: In the same World Cup, Pakistan rewrote history by defeating India, who had won consecutively since 1992, in the match held in Dubai. India’s Mohammad Sammy, who bowled 3.5 overs in the match, did not take wickets and gave away 43 runs.
But he faced severe bigoted attacks on social media, saying that because he belonged to the religion of Islam, he deliberately acted to help the victory of the Islamic nation of Pakistan. It is noteworthy that everyone from Virat Kohli to Sachin Tendulkar came out in support of Shami in response to the incident which created a huge controversy at that time.
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2. Go home: Australia’s Andrew Symonds, who passed away recently, has received a lot of criticism for being a great player in white-ball cricket. Mainly in the last 2009 T20 World Cup held in England, before the start of Australia’s first match, he behaved unethically after drinking alcohol.
So the disgruntled Australian team management immediately removed him from the team and sent him to Australia, which is still seen as the biggest controversy in Australian cricket and his career.
1. Historical incident: It cannot be called a controversy, it can be called history. In the first T20 World Cup held in Durban in 2007, Yuvraj Singh hit 6 sixes in 6 balls in the 19th over bowled by Stuart Broad for India to win the world record. We all know Broad fell victim to Andrew Flintup’s sledging at the start of that over.
But Yuvraj told England’s Kevin Pietersen on Instagram Live in 2020 that he got angry and hit 6 sixes after Andrew Flintup sledging “I’ll cut your neck (conch)” for hitting 2 fours in the previous over was seen as surprising and controversial.
In addition, Yuvraj Singh said that he hit 5 sixes in his over in an ODI match in the same year and saw Dimriti Mascranes as the first to hit those sixes.
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