Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan has ignited a brand new debate over the spirit of cricket after Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews was ‘timed out’ in a fiery World Cup conflict. It was the primary time within the 146-year historical past of worldwide cricket that such a dismissal had occurred. Mathews was adjudged to be out after failing to take strike inside the two-minute time restrict when he got here out to bat within the sport in New Delhi on Monday. Shakib made the enchantment which was upheld by the on-field umpires and Mathews branded the Bangladesh captain as “disgraceful”.
AFP Sport appears at 5 different occasions star all-rounder Shakib has made headlines for the mistaken causes.
Crotch of the matter
In 2014, Shakib gestured in direction of his crotch when TV cameras centered on him within the dressing room after his dismissal in a one-day worldwide in opposition to Sri Lanka in Mirpur.
Shakib was out for twenty-four in his workforce’s chase of 290 on the Sher e Bangla Nationwide Stadium and he appeared pissed off after commentators mentioned the dismissal at size.
The gesture from Shakib went dwell on TV and on the massive display on the floor and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) handed him a three-match ban for an “inappropriate gesture” and a high-quality of $3,800.
‘I stop’ textual content
Shakib bumped into hassle once more later in 2014 when he skipped a coaching camp and determined to stop worldwide cricket by way of a textual content message to educate Chandika Hathurusingha.
The BCB summoned Shakib to Dhaka however the star participant was in transit in London on the time to fly off to the West Indies for the Caribbean Premier League.
He was banned for six months for “severe misbehaviour”, however the suspension was later diminished to three-and-a-half months.
“He has a extreme perspective downside, which is unprecedented within the historical past of Bangladesh cricket,” BCB president Nazmul Hassan mentioned on the time.
Kick and curse
Shakib as soon as vented his anger on a house umpire throughout a Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match in 2015, an incident which introduced him a one-match ban and a $250 high-quality.
He hurled a volley of abuse in direction of umpire Tanvir Ahmed when an enchantment in opposition to rival batsman Mushfiqur Rahim was turned down.
In a separate incident in 2021, Shakib blew his fuse at an umpire throughout a Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League sport and kicked and uprooted the stumps.
He later issued a public apology for his “human error”.
A contact of glass
The Nidahas Trophy, a tri-nation occasion held in 2018 to rejoice Sri Lanka’s independence, was marred by an ill-tempered contest and dangerous dressing room behaviour in Colombo.
A detailed contest between hosts Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all of the sudden turned very tense on a no-ball choice reversed by the umpires and an offended Shakib turned up on the ropes to attempt to name his batsmen off the sphere in protest.
Order was restored earlier than Bangladesh received the match on the penultimate ball however unruly scenes adopted and later a glass door was shattered within the Bangladesh dressing room.
Shakib later apologised and admitted the gamers together with himself had allowed their feelings to get the higher of them.
Anti-corruption ban
In 2019, Shakib was banned by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) for 2 years for failing to report corrupt approaches, together with within the Indian Premier League.
The ban got here after Shakib accepted three fees of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
These included failing to speak in confidence to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit full particulars of approaches or invites made in relation to the Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe Tri-Sequence in January 2018 in addition to the 2018 IPL.
It was a backdated ban and Shakib made his means again into the workforce in October, 2020.
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