Australian cricket team captain Mitchel Marsh has said that Gulbudin Naib’s injury was very funny. “I have never seen such a funny thing on the cricket field before. I had tears in my eyes from laughing,” he said.
He went on to state that ultimately, it didn’t affect the game. “We can laugh about the injury, and it was amazing. There were many twists in the match. We wanted to play more in the tournament.”
On the defeat against Afghanistan, he said, “Some things are out of your hands, and we have ourselves to blame. We were shocked when the last wicket fell.”
What is the matter of ‘Fake Injury’?
In pursuit of Afghanistan’s target of 116 runs, during Bangladesh’s innings, the Afghan team took the sixth and seventh wickets at the score of 80 of the Bengal team in the 11th over.
In the next over, when the Bangladesh team was just two runs behind the DLS method score, Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott signaled to his players to slow down the match so the rain would stop. In this case, the Bengal team was behind the score across the DLS method.
After Jonathan Trott signaled to the team, Afghanistan fielder Gulbudin Naib, standing at slip in the 12th over, lay down on the ground, indicating severe pain in his leg. Team members then called for help from the support staff and took him off the field.
The match was stopped during this time. As soon as Gulbudin was taken off the field, it started raining, and the pitch was covered, but the rain did not last long, and the match resumed.
As soon as the match started, after a few moments, surprisingly, Gulbdin, who was not able to walk some time ago, also returned to the field, bowled the 15th over of the match, and took the wicket.
However, Afghanistan then qualified for the T20 World Cup semi-finals by defeating Bangladesh by eight runs.
Fans called Gulbudin Naib’s injury fake. According to (ICC), it is an offence to deliberately waste time on the part of the batting or bowling team during a match.
