Even as a popular anecdote describes cricket as a game of uncertainties, it is still very hard to comprehend that a team could have 92 runs on its scorecard in just four deliveries of inning’s first over. Well, this bizarre incident happened on Tuesday in Bangladesh during a league match between two clubs (Axiom and Lalmatia) in the Dhaka Second Division Cricket League.
The match descended into a farce after Lalmatia bowler Sujan Mahmud gave away 92 runs in first four balls of the second innings. He intentionally bowled, 80 extras – 65 from 13 wide balls and 15 runs from three no-balls. The Axiom openers scored 12 runs ( three boundaries) and 0. The Lalmatia team upstaged this drama to lodge their protest against shoddy umpiring that they alleged was done to tilt game in Axiom’s favour. Lalmatia were asked to bat first and were restricted to 88 in 14 overs. There was one run-out, two caught behind, three lbws and one stumping the first innings that left the LalMatia’s dressing room seething with outrage.
“It started at the toss and my captain was not allowed to see the coin. We were sent to bat first and as expected the umpires’ decision came against us, getting the team all out for a low score,” Adnan Rahman Dipon, the Lalmatia general secretary, told Dhaka Tribune.
“My players are young, aged around 17, 18 and 19 years. They could not tolerate the injustice and thus reacted giving 92 runs in the four deliveries.” However, a senior cricket official said that the senior players, including the regular captain, were not part of the side,
