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Fans Call Cheteshwar Pujara "Cheater" For Escaping Dismissal During Ranji Trophy Semi-final


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Cheteshwar Pujara had received high acclaim for his resolute batting in India's first-ever Test series win in Australia in December 2018. However, the 31-year-old Test specialist disappointed some cricket fans on Monday after he escaped a few dismissals during the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Karnataka in Bengaluru. Cheteshwar Pujara scored an unbeaten 131 to help Saurashtra beat Karnataka by five wickets to set up a summit clash against Vidarbha, to be played from February 3. But while walking off the ground at the tea break, Pujara was called "cheater" by a group of spectators.

 

After getting a lifeline in the first innings, Pujara edged one behind in the second innings too when he was on 34. The umpire adjudged him not out. Fast bowler R Vinay Kumar, who had started celebrating the wicket, walked up to the umpire for a small discussion. While the umpire was determined on his decision, Pujara's character was highly criticised by the fans.

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15 minutes ago, vayuu1 said:

Pathetic from fans, this guy has won India series in Australia and some chewts have the audacity to taunt him. 

 

11 minutes ago, zen said:

Sore losers I guess .... Gujarat team is divided into 3 teams - Saurashtra, Baroda and Gujarat, still they do extremely well in Ranjis :dance:

 

8 minutes ago, Cricketics said:

Fans are losers as always, but Pujara too should have walked. Poor stuff all around. 

 How are fans losers here? Batsmen cheat like this all the time but that doesn't mean it's in the spirit of the game. Secondly this is not India vs other country match. So why should Pujara winning matches for India be considered for small incidents in domestics. Neither Pujara nor fans are wrong here. Let's move on. Trivial incident tbh.

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6 minutes ago, Pollack said:

 

 

 How are fans losers here? Batsmen cheat like this all the time but that doesn't mean it's in the spirit of the game. Secondly this is not India vs other country match. So why should Pujara winning matches for India be considered for small incidents in domestics. Neither Pujara nor fans are wrong here. Let's move on. Trivial incident tbh.

Because they will celebrate if he is given out when not out .... not call on their team for appealing wrongly  .... and when the batsman of their own team is given not out when out (read here that Agarwal did not walk too) ....  batsman gets both good and bad decisions, so they will leave it to umpires for things to hopefully even out

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When I was younger I used to think among the south states Keralites and Tamilians have a strong language feeling where as Andhra and Karnataka were kind of the forgotten states.

 

However there must have been some Taliban kind of a ethnic/ language based movement in Karnataka recently as I see Kannadigas have become very radical. They have superseded every other language based group in India in terms of this. 

 

Examples- we set up a Ganesh pandal in my apartments in Hyderabad. Our aparatment hires a priest  during this time.

 

There is this Kannada aunty who ensures that she hires only a Kannada priest if she is in charge of organizing the festival that year.Not that anyone cares but she found a Kannada speaking priest in Hyderabad, kudos to her rashtra Bhakti :hatsoff:

 

Similarly back in the day most of my Kannada friends used to watch Telugu movies. These days they refuse to watch anything other than “Kannada” Movies :hmmmm2:

 

I heard Karnataka even banned regional movies.

 

They are forming cliques in offices which is the birthright of Telugu caste groups,Gujjus  and Tamilians. What is going on?

 

Now they are booing Indian hero Pujara.

 

Is Karnataka being Talibanized :nervous:

 

Maybe deserves its own thread @coffee_rules @diga @Lannister @Kannadiga @jalebi_bhai

@philcric

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22 minutes ago, zen said:

Because they will celebrate if he is given out when not out .... not call on their team for appealing wrongly  .... and when the batsman of their own team is given not out when out (read here that Agarwal did not walk too) ....  batsman gets both good and bad decisions, so they will leave it to umpires for things to hopefully even out

Players appeal all the time because it's not possible for them to be sure. However if a batsman nick's one more often than not he knows it. The two are not comparable. In any case, players are not at all fault here. Neither are fans. No one is loser here.

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4 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Why?  Who does that?  Nobody walks off on bad decisions anywhere.

I do. People do. Pujara would have walked where technology was present. He took advantage of technology not being present. As simple as that. If snico and all were there, he would have walked in a hurry. He just took advantage of the situation. 

 

 

 

 

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Just now, sandeep said:

Maharathi, I would humbly suggest that your level of cricket is not quite comparable to Ranji or other FC for that matter.

Yes, tune aage ki line pe focus nahi kara. He took advantage of drs not there. Id there was drs, he would have walked out of shame. Since, drs wasn’t there, he decided to stay. Thats the point. 

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10 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Players appeal all the time because it's not possible for them to be sure. However if a batsman nick's one more often than not he knows it. The two are not comparable. In any case, players are not at all fault here. Neither are fans. No one is loser here.

In any sports arena, it is not acceptable to be shouting such things at players (and when it is the umpires that make the call) .... and because they did it to a player of other team, it comes across as a case of sore losers 

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Well, he could have walked.

Again, he was well within his rights to stand there, no doubt. But then again he ought a have walked.

 

People may not like it here. But even this is a subtle form of cheating. It's the ugly truth. Same like Stuart Broad in ashes and michael clarke edging and standing to kumble.

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