Cricket News Desk. Cricket may be called a ‘gentleman’s game’, but there are incidents related to this game which fans will hardly be able to forget. One of them is the on-field clash between Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad. Yes, we are talking about the same match in which former Pakistan captain Javed raised his bat to hit Australian bowler Dennis Lillee. Let’s take a look at some of the favorite cricket battles that fans are talking about…
1. Dennis Lillee vs Javed Miandad, 1981
The most shocking case is related to Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee and former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad. In 1981, Pakistan team was on Australia tour. During the Perth Test, Miandad played Lillee for a run, but collided with Lillee when he ran to take the run. Miandad kept saying that Lily kicked him. In response, Miandad raised his bat to hit Lillee. Umpire Tony Crofter intervened to save the situation. Regarding this, former Australian captain Bobby Simpson said that he has seen such a shameful thing for the first time on the cricket field. The Australian team fined Lillee 200 Australian dollars. Later, when the umpire complained that this was too little punishment, the Australian board fined Lillee $120 and banned him for two matches.
2. Inzamam Ul Haq’s clash with fans, Sahara Cup 1997
During this match held in Toronto, Inzamam Ul Haq collided with a spectator. In fact, during the match, a group of spectators repeatedly teased Inzamam by saying ‘Aloo-Aloo’ on the microphone speaker, after which he lost his temper and went into the stands and clashed with a spectator. He even raised the bat to beat the spectator, but Inzamam calmed down due to his intervention.
3. 1992 World Cup, Javed Miandad-Kiran More
In this World Cup match, the dispute between Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More and Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad attracted a lot of discussion. More, who was keeping wicket during the match, tried to run out Miandad but could not succeed, after which he started jumping vigorously to tease More. After watching the video of this incident, you will hardly be able to stop laughing.
4. 1996 World Cup, Venkatesh Prasad – Aamir Sohail
In this match, India batted first and scored 287 runs. Aamir Sohail was batting for the Pakistani team which was chasing the target. In one over of Venkatesh Prasad, Sohail teased Prasad by hitting a four and hinted at hitting a four, Prasad came back and clean bowled Sohail on the very next ball. After this, Venkatesh retaliated and signaled Sohail to go home.
5. 2004, Gautam Gambhir-Shahid Afridi
Even during this match, the atmosphere became very tense when Shahid Afridi and Gautam Gambhir clashed with each other. Actually, what happened was that Gambhir hit a four on Shahid Afridi’s ball, after which Afridi made some comments on Gambhir, on the very second ball when Gambhir ran to take a run, Afridi collided with him. After this there was a lot of altercation between the two and the umpire had to intervene. This is one of those cricketing moments which hardly any India-Pakistan cricket fan will be able to forget.
