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“India very lucky it wasn’t picked up,” Twitter reacts after Bangladesh wicketkeeper reveals Kohli’s fake fielding attempt was overlooked by umpires in India Vs Bangladesh World Cup game

The ICC laws state that any attempt of fake fielding will result in 5 penalty runs for the fielding side

Photo of Abhishek AbhishekNovember 3, 2022
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India Vs Bangladesh

The India Vs Bangladesh game in the ongoing T20 World Cup yesterday got so close and so tense that everyone missed one significant event that could have changed the course of the match. India had batted first and put 184 runs on the board, but in reply, the Bangladeshi opener Litton Das got his team to an absolute flier and scored a fifty off just 21 balls.

When Litton was going great guns, it seemed as if he would take the game away from India and the Indian bowlers and fielders were desperate to get him out somehow. During that phase of the game, when Litton placed a ball towards a deep point and the throw came from there towards the wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik’s end, Virat Kohli was in the way of that throw.

Kohli should have ideally let that throw come to the keeper, which he actually did, but when the ball was crossing him, Kohli gestured as if he had collected the ball and then he pretended to throw it towards the bowler’s end, while in reality, the ball was not in Kohli’s hand.

The former Indian captain pretended that fake throw because he wanted Litton Das to take the second run easy, thinking that the ball was going to the non-striker’s end when actually it was coming to the keeper. Litton, however, was very aware of the situation and had his eyes on the ball.

India Vs Bangladesh game might have been a tie

Generally, if a throw is being pretended by a fielder without having the ball in his hands, it is considered fake fielding and ICC laws state that the fielding team has to pay a 5-run penalty for that. If a 5-run penalty was paid for Kohli’s fake fielding, the India Vs Bangladesh match might have been a tie, as Bangladesh lost the match by just 5 runs at the end.

Here is how the fans reacted on Twitter after the fake fielding incident was highlighted by the Bangladesh wicket-keeper batsman Nurul Hasan Sohan after the game –

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Photo of Abhishek AbhishekNovember 3, 2022
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Abhishek

I write a bit on cricket and I am more interested in technical and tactical side of the game, rather than bravado.
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