Bangladesh Bowler Gives 92 Runs In 4 Balls, Team Loses Match In Under An Over. No Kidding!

If you know even a little about cricket, you know that there are six legal deliveries in an over and even if a batsman hits all of them for sixes, he would get no more than 36 runs.

Scoring more than 36 runs is not impossible though. If the bowler keeps on bowling extras and the batsman keeps on hitting, there is no upper limit. However, as anyone would know, the chances of that happening are highly (and I can’t stress on the ‘highly’ enough) improbable.

However, it seems like a Bangladeshi cricket club was pretty keen on doing the improbable on Tuesday. It was a ‘Dhaka Second Division Cricket League’ match between ‘Axiom’ and ‘Lalmatia’ clubs at the City Club Cricket Gound where this happened.

Bowling the first over of the innings for Lalmatia, Sujon Mahmud gave away 92 runs in just 4 balls including 65 wide runs (from 13 wide balls) and 15 from three no balls! Rest of the 12 runs came from the four legal deliveries.

Batting first, the Lalmatia club scored just 88 runs off 14 overs (in a 50 over match). So, the Axiom club won the match in just 4 balls!

Apparently, it was not that Mahmud was a bad bowler or his club was in a hurry to wrap things up, but ‘Lalmatia’ was protesting against the biased decisions by the umpires. General Secretary of the club, Adnan Rahman Dipon said,

It is not the first incident where biased decisions have come into light in the league. On April 4, digital manipulation was reported during a match between ‘Kathal Bagan Green Crescent Club’ and ‘North Bengal Cricket Academy’.

Incidents like these are only going to reduce Bangladesh’s chances of getting good players from the grassroots level. Corruption, of any form and at any level, should be heavily discouraged, let’s hope that the ‘Bangladesh Cricket Board’ investigates the matter and punishes the culprits.

News Source: Dhaka Tribune

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