BANNED: Bangladeshi bowler slapped with 10-year ban for conceding 92 off 4 balls

Sujon bowled the wides and no-balls as a protest against poor umpiring, but that is not the spirit in which the game is played

By: Score Keepers |
May 2, 2017 9:02 pm

It is not everyday that you get to hear a bowler conceding 92 runs in 4 balls, it is the rarest of rare case. But it has happened and the bowler guilty of that has also faced the brunt of it, we will tell you all of that. It seems he deliberately bowled those deliveries and got his team to lose the match. By doing this he broke the integrity of the game and that has forced Bangladesh Cricket Board to ban the culprit for 10 years.

The player in question is Sujon Mahmud from Lalmatia Club was found guilty bringing the game into disrepute.

Lalmatia Club were barred indefinitely from competition, with their coach, captain and manager punished with five-year bans from the Dhaka Second Division League.

In the match played last month, Lalmatia Club were dismissed for just 88 off 14 overs before opponents Axiom Cricketers reached 92-0 off four legal balls. Strange, isn’t it?

Sujon bowled 13 wides and three no-balls in the first over, all of which reached the boundary and cost his side 80 runs.

“We have found in our investigations that the bowlers bowled wides and no-balls deliberately to damage the image of our cricket,” the board’s disciplinary committee chief Sheikh Sohel told a press briefing.

“In neither case would a win or loss have mattered for the promotion or relegation of their respective clubs.”

Lalmatia Club secretary Adnan Rahman had admitted Sujon bowled the wides and no-balls as a protest against poor umpiring, but that is not the spirit in which the game is played.