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India played another thriller of a game at the T20 World Cup 2022. The Rohit Sharma-led team met Bangladesh in their fourth group-stage game at the showpiece event and needed a win to solidify their qualification chances. India posted a hefty 184/6 in their 20 overs on the back of half-centuries from KL Rahul (50) and Virat Kohli (64*). Suryakumar Yadav also chipped in with a brisk 30 off 16 balls.
Bangladesh needed to score 185 runs to spoil India’s qualification chances and the Tigers started the chase on a high. The opening pair of Litton Das and Najmul Shanto put together 60 runs in the first six overs with Das smashing anything and everything thrown at him. The batter scored a half-century in just 21 balls. However, rain interrupted play right after Bangladesh played their 7th over.
They were ahead by 17 runs of the DLS target at that point and might have been declared the winners if the rain had continued. But it didn’t and the play was resumed with the revised target. Bangladesh now needed 151 runs from 16 overs. The play resumed and a flurry of wickets came India’s way as Bangladesh lost four wickets for nine runs (99-2 to 108-6). Eventually, India won the match by five runs after plenty of drama in the middle.
Things seemed normal until Nurul Hasan made a revelation at the post-match presser. The Bangladesh batter revealed that the side were devoid of five penalty runs which they should have got for Virat Kohli’s ‘fake fielding’. "Eventually, when we talk about these things, there was also a fake throw. It could have been a five-run penalty. That also could have gone our way, but unfortunately, even that didn't materialise,” said Hasan.
Now, a Twitter user has found the clip where Kohli is se en pretending to throw the ball at the non-striker’s end while Arshdeep Singh throws the ball at the striker’s end. The incident is said to be during the 7th over of Bangladesh’s innings.
Here is the video of the incident:
Notably, Cricket's Law 41.5, pertaining to unfair play, prohibits the "deliberate distraction, deception or obstruction of [the] batter", and if an incident is deemed to be a breach, the umpire can declare that particular delivery as dead ball, and award the batting side five runs.
