Cricket Controversy: By the way, the game of cricket is called Gentle Man’s game and it is also seen many times on the field. But sometimes something like this is seen on the field which is not liked by all the cricket lovers at all. But whenever it comes to Cricket Controversy, the name of the Australia team comes first in the mind and why didn’t the Kangaroo team commit the biggest mistake in the history of cricket, and the entire cricket game was tarnished.
Kangaroo team did a shameful act in the year 1981
In 1981, the third final match of the Best of Five of the Benson & Hedges ODI series was being played between Australia and New Zealand. In this match, on the last ball of the last over, the New Zealand team needed a six to tie the match. But it was clear that New Zealand would not be able to achieve this. Even after this, Australian captain Greg Chappell asked his bowler and younger brother Trevor Chappell to bowl the batsman Brian McKennie underarm. Trevor Chappell did just that, forcing the Kiwi batsman McKennie to play the ball squarely. The underarm ball meant the victory of the Kangaroo team. At that time it was legal to throw such a ball on the cricket field but it was tantamount to killing the spirit of the game.
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The Prime Ministers of both the countries had given statements on this dispute.
The controversy had reached the Prime Ministers of both the countries on this act done by the Australian team and on this controversy, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, said, “The most disgusting incident in the history of cricket that I can remember”. saying that “it was an act of true cowardice.” Whereas Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said that, ‘contrary to all traditions of the game’.
Later changes to this rule
The underarm ball bowled by the Australia team has been the biggest controversy in cricket history so far. After this incident in 1981, the International Cricket Council (ICC) made a major change in this rule and removed this rule from the game of cricket. But as time passed, former Australia captain Greg Chappell realized that whatever he did with the New Zealand team was completely wrong.
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