{"id":66207,"date":"2025-02-22T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66207"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:32:38","slug":"five-controversial-pakistan-india-moments-in-odi-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/five-controversial-pakistan-india-moments-in-odi-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Five controversial Pakistan-India moments in ODI cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DUBAI: Pakistan and India clash in a blockbuster group match at the Champions Trophy on Sunday in Dubai.<\/p>\n

AFP Sport looks at five controversial moments on the pitch between the arch-rivals in one-day cricket.<\/p>\n

Miandad’s kangaroo jump<\/h3>\n

Pakistan’s Javed Miandad always found a way of unsettling his opponents with his batting or sledging, and a match against India at the 1992 World Cup was no different.<\/p>\n

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Javed Miandad’s mimicry of Indian wicket-keeper Kiran More during the 1992 World Cup match between India and Pakistan in Sydney. \u2014 X\/ @rohaamirr\/File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Excessive appealing by Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More seemed to have irked Miandad during Pakistan’s chase in Sydney.<\/p>\n

The batter had a word with More, who was constantly chatting behind the stumps, before taking guard on a delivery.<\/p>\n

Later, after completing a cheeky run, Miandad hopped like a kangaroo in a bid to imitate the glovesman in his appeals.<\/p>\n

Commentators and fans saw the funny side but not Indian skipper Mohammad Azharuddin, who looked visibly furious at Miandad’s antics.<\/p>\n

Prasad’s revenge<\/h3>\n

Opener Aamer Sohail was steering Pakistan’s chase in the 1996 World Cup quarter-final when a moment of rashness from the left-handed batter cost his team the game.<\/p>\n

Chasing 289 for victory in Bengaluru, Sohail and fellow opener Saeed Anwar made the team race to 84 in 10 overs before Anwar departed.<\/p>\n

Sohail kept up the charge as he hit Indian medium-pacer Venkatesh Prasad for a boundary and sledged the bowler with a finger pointed in the direction of the shot.<\/p>\n

Prasad hit back, bowling Sohail next ball to a huge roar from the crowd and a send-off gesture from the bowler to derail Pakistan’s chase.<\/p>\n

Inzamam attacks fan<\/h3>\n

Pakistan’s usually cool Inzamam-ul-Haq infamously confronted an India fan in the stands at a match in 1997 at Toronto and the incident became a talking point for years to come.<\/p>\n

Inzamam was standing at the boundary when an India supporter heckled the batter with chants of “Aloo” (Potato in Hindi), referring to the cricketer’s bulky frame.<\/p>\n

When the calls became louder on a megaphone, Inzamam directed one of his players to bring a bat from the dressing room and was soon inside the stands to go after the heckler before security intervened.<\/p>\n

Inzamam was reprimanded for the act and years later said the chants were personal and abusive.<\/p>\n

Gambhir-Afridi trade abuse<\/h3>\n

India batsman Gautam Gambhir — now their coach — smacked Pakistan spinner Shahid Afridi for a boundary in a match in 2007 and words were exchanged before the two nearly came to blows.<\/p>\n

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Gautam Gambhir and Shahid Afridi have come a long way since the last time the two clashed \u2014 AFP\/File\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Gambhir and Afridi refused to back down after some verbal volleys and the batter and bowler collided — seemingly on purpose — in between a run.<\/p>\n

The two again had a go at each other with expletives clearly visible in dramatic TV images, before the on-field umpire intervened to douse the fire.<\/p>\n

Gambhir and Afridi have kept up the rivalry even after retiring and indulge in ugly exchanges on social media on cricket and politics.<\/p>\n

Akhtar triggers Harbhajan<\/h3>\n

Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar never backed down from a fight but in a duel with Harbhajan Singh at the 2010 Asia Cup the Indian spinner had the last laugh.<\/p>\n

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Harbhajan Singh (left) and Shoaib Akhtar. \u2014 Hindustan Times\/X\/File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Akhtar bowled a dot ball to tailender Harbhajan in India’s chase and threw a few sledges, but that only triggered the batter to hit a six for an India victory in the final over off Mohammad Amir.<\/p>\n

Harbhajan celebrated wildly in front of Akhtar, who told him where to go.<\/p>\n

Akhtar and Harbhajan recently playfully re-enacted the moment on TV in a promotion video for the Champions Trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI: Pakistan and India clash in a blockbuster group match at the Champions Trophy on Sunday in Dubai. AFP Sport looks at five controversial moments on the pitch between the arch-rivals in one-day cricket. Miandad’s kangaroo jump Pakistan’s Javed Miandad always found a way of unsettling his opponents with his batting or sledging, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":66209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2454],"class_list":["post-66207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66210,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions\/66210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}