Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga has a heated conversation with umpire Ross Emerson, who had no-balled Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing in an ODI against England, January 23, 1999, in Adelaide.Ranatunga led his team off the ground and threatened to abandon the tour since Muralitharan’s bowling action had earlier been deemed legitimate by the ICC. Play resumed after 14 minutes. England made 302.Tensions between the teams simmered till the end when Roshan Mahanama was shouldered by captain Alec Stewart. In poetic justice, last-man Muralitharan came out to bat in the final over to hit the winning runs.
Australian players celebrate after running out South Africa’s Allan Donald in the World Cup semi-final in Birmingham on June 17, 1999.A massivemisunderstanding in the final over between last-man Donald and Lance Klusener, who had batted heroically to bring SA within a run of a win, ended the game in a tie.Tournament rules allowed Australia to reach the final, which they won, beginning their decade-long domination of international cricket cricket.
February 9, 1980, saw scenes that have rarely been seen on a cricket field. West Indies, on short tour to New Zealand, felt the umpires were biased. In thefirst Test in Dunedin, Michael Holding knocked over the stumps at the striker’s end after a caught-behind was turned down by umpire John Hastie. “This was not cricket and I didn't have to be part of it. I was on my way to the pavilion, quite prepared not to bowl again, when Clive Lloyd and (Deryck) Murray persuaded me back,” Holding said. Later in the tour, Colin Croft shoulder-barged umpire Fred Goodall while running in to bowl. It marked the lowest point in the cricket relations between the two teams and the only incident where an umpire was assaulted by a player in an international game.
BBC employees were on strike hence there’s no video recording of one of the greatest knocks in one-day cricket. On June 18, 1983, in Tunbridge Wells, India captain Kapil Dev came out to bat against Zimbabwe with the score reading 9-4 (soon to be 17-5).Kapil proceeded to pound 175 off 138 balls with 16 fours and six sixes, establishing a new record score for ODIs. India’s qualification to the semifinal was on the line. They beat Zimbabwe here. Revitalised by Kapil’s feat, India went on to stun West Indies in the final.
On march 22 1992, the scoreboard at the Sydney Cricket Ground tells the story as England win a controversial rain-affected World Cup semifinal against South Africa. Rain stopped play when South Africa needed 22 runs off 13 balls. Two overs were lost and according to the much-despised rain rule, the target was reworked to 22 off 1 ball). It's been 19 years since the incident and South Africa are yet to win a knock-out match at the World Cup.
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