Cric-riot in Bangladesh

[shailesh]

from thedailystar.net Better if forgotten Mohammad Isam A man ran in, uprooted the stumps at the bowler's end and ran towards the west. In the meantime, two more joined in, shoved a few fielders just slightly, while threatening the batsmen verbally. Stumps are gone, fielders running towards the pavilion in fear and the rest of the crowd chasing the three culprits. After a while the three emerge; bleeding on the face after the crowd beat them up furiously: a cricket match in Bangladesh. In the last decade, such happenings are not rare as it is quite 'honourable' for clubs to threaten or physically beat up their opponents, own players or the umpires if the match did not go according to their wish. Dirty practice to say the least but yesterday at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium, it was done in front of thousands of witnesses. Brothers Union's notoriety lived up to expectations as their club boy Shahid ran inside the hallowed turf of a cricket ground and ran off with the stumps. After all the fracas that followed, umpires called for Rapid Action Battalion's (RAB) assistance to control the crowd. When asked, the Brothers officials pointed fingers at the ground staff as the perpetrators but when they were asked to continue play, they claimed that two of their players were 'missing'. Umpires, in a little while, found one of them under the advertising board. Brothers' supporters then threatened their own players, most of whom live in the club tent in Gopibagh. The players, some of them ex-national players, were worried to say the least. More than players' security, the ancient and immature mentality of clubs was exposed in Dhanmondi yesterday. Any number of players could have been hurt due to their inept thinking, that too at a Premier League match. The match referee left with the umpires, without mentioning the match decision, with anxiousness in their face. The match events were dwarfed and Partex were declared winners by eight runs as per Duckworth-Lewis method. Earlier, Brothers scored 244 for six to which Partex were in striking distance of a win with their score on 239 for six in 48.2 overs. :eew:

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