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Chitchats of Nidahas Trophy: Part-2

Why that much grudges Against Bangladesh?

Published : Friday, 23 March, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan
Sri Lanka arranged Nidahas Trophy 2018 to commemorate their 70th independence day, who invited Bangladesh and India to receive the hospitality. The external affairs of the cricket battles, which dropped cricket behind are analyzed here. The second part of the 'Chitchat' attempted to reveal the grudges showed against Bangladesh during the tournament.

Unheeded Practice Facilities: Bangladesh went to Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground for scheduled practice on March 13 but had to return hotel lobby after 10 minutes since they found out below-par wickets there. "Bangladesh had practice sessions at SSC but the wicket is not upto the mark. Anybody can get injury here and we did not want to take the risk," Tigers team manager Khaled Mahmud told to the media. Such negligence from the host of any international cricket event organising nation raises question about their 'sense and senilities'. 

Biased Umpiring: When judges become subjective then who's to defend the fence? All matches of an international event had been umpired by four locals is a surprise, the more surprising is their decision favouring the home side trenchermen. Ruchira Palliyaguruge,  Raveendra Wimalasiri , Ranmore Martinesz and  Lyndon Hannibal were the match officials throughout the series, while Englishman Chris Broad was the only external recruit who is the ICC panel match referee.
Umpiring hoax seen in the last over of Isuru Udana during the virtual semi-final between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The leg umpire gave 'No Ball' to the second of the consecutive shoulder height ball, but the umpire in bowlers end didn't awarded it. It created chaos, which resulted the fine for Shakib and his men.
Alleged umpires along with Lankan brawls went unpunished!

Another shameless umpiring show of Ranmore Martinesz surprised everyone, who called a clear caught behind a wide against Rubel during India-Bangladesh fifth match.

Tamim had been given LBW in an outside leg stump pitching ball in the final, which also missing everything. Tamim sustained challenging umpire's decision.
An interesting reaction from Umpire got viral in social media, where umpire had seen more disappointed than bowler Akila Dhananjya after the wicketkeeper's failure to catch the ball that brushed Tamim's bat in the match of March 16.

Flag Distortion: During the playing of national anthem in the second Nidahas Trophy match between Bangladesh and India, Lankan authority sent a bluish coloured Bangladesh Flag. The ill will also showed in the final when Lankan technology echoed while playing national anthem of Bangladesh.

Isn't it arrogance? - Sri Lanka printed banner for 'Invitee Car Pass' for the final where they mentioned that they had been taking on India in the final on March 18, who failed to qualify for the final after conceding consecutive losses against Tigers. How they could hang such a thing, when the qualifier yet to be determined?
To be continued ...


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