Nearly 400 injured in clash over umpiring

[age_master]

Bangladesh cricket

Nearly 400 injured in clash over umpiring

Cricinfo staff

December 3, 2005

Nearly 400 have been injured in a village in Bangladesh in a series of clashes over controversial umpiring decisions in a cricket match between two rural teams. At least one man is reported to have died while a dozen houses were torched in the scuffle.

Paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles and police fired gun shots and tear gas shells on Thursday to disperse a fighting mob from a village near Brahmanbaria district town, 100 km from Dhaka.

"More than 200 people were admitted to different hospitals with injuries," a police inspector was quoted as saying in a Reuters report. "The victim succumbed to stab injuries while being shifted to Dhaka for higher treatment." The rival villagers used guns, sticks and whatever weapons came to hand in sporadic clashes that began on Tuesday.

Delayed television footage showed hundreds of people carrying sticks and fighting on a newly harvested paddy ground at Sarail.The clashes continued through the day and night before the police and paramilitaries went into action in the village. "The situation is now under control," the inspector continued, "but scores of people were injured and huge properties were damaged."

© Cricinfo

ouch!

 

[ClownSymonds]

Well, good to see such enthusiasm for cricket in Bangladesh. Sad that there were so many casualties.

 

[JASON]

Its another illustration of how bad things can get when Bad Umpiring ruins a friendly sport that was thought of as the most Gentlemanly of all games at one time .

 

[Lyell_Chris]

this all goes back to the English making the game so unfriendly with bodyline

Lol @ clown

 

[andyc]

Well, good to see such enthusiasm for cricket in Bangladesh. Sad that there were so many casualties.

Hahaha my god...

 

[Neil Pickup]

this all goes back to the English making the game so unfriendly with bodyline

Lol @ clown

*is unconvinved at this particular line of logic*

 

[33/3from3.3]

yea chris POMYS love to hit things so bodyline was bound to come to existance sooner or later

 

[PY]

Is that the same logic that Aussies love to steeal things so they were bound to get their hands on the Ashes?

 

[Mister Wright]

Is that the same logic that Aussies love to steeal things so they were bound to get their hands on the Ashes?

It can't be worse than refusing to give over something you haven't held for 20 years.

 

[PY]

Shut down.

 

[Craig]

LOL!

This is as bad as soccer matches in Argentina and Brazil.

 

[open365]

If this doesn't convice people that technology>umpires is true then i don't know what will.

 

[The Baconator]

If this doesn't convice people that technology>umpires is true then i don't know what will.

Maybe so, but even if the ICC does allow more technology to be used I doubt we'll see it being used in a village match in Bangladesh.

 

[open365]

Maybe so, but even if the ICC does allow more technology to be used I doubt we'll see it being used in a village match in Bangladesh.

ahhh,i see i forgot the sarcasm tags

 

[seamer]

Bangladesh cricket

Nearly 400 injured in clash over umpiring

Cricinfo staff

December 3, 2005

Nearly 400 have been injured in a village in Bangladesh in a series of clashes over controversial umpiring decisions in a cricket match between two rural teams. At least one man is reported to have died while a dozen houses were torched in the scuffle.

Paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles and police fired gun shots and tear gas shells on Thursday to disperse a fighting mob from a village near Brahmanbaria district town, 100 km from Dhaka.

"More than 200 people were admitted to different hospitals with injuries," a police inspector was quoted as saying in a Reuters report. "The victim succumbed to stab injuries while being shifted to Dhaka for higher treatment." The rival villagers used guns, sticks and whatever weapons came to hand in sporadic clashes that began on Tuesday.

Delayed television footage showed hundreds of people carrying sticks and fighting on a newly harvested paddy ground at Sarail.The clashes continued through the day and night before the police and paramilitaries went into action in the village. "The situation is now under control," the inspector continued, "but scores of people were injured and huge properties were damaged."

© Cricinfo

ouch!

So it was almost as bad as the England - Pakistan match then?

 

[Scaly piscine]

It can't be worse than refusing to give over something you haven't held for 20 years.

Yea, we can't all be as generous as a country that unleashed Dame Edna Everage. Steve Irwin and Neighbours on the World.

 

[Mister Wright]

Yea, we can't all be as generous as a country that unleashed Dame Edna Everage. Steve Irwin and Neighbours on the World.

Hey, we unleashed them because they were no good here. Just because other parts of the world embraced them is not our fault.

 

[Jono]

Yea, we can't all be as generous as a country that unleashed Dame Edna Everage. Steve Irwin and Neighbours on the World.

Why do you English watch Neighbours though? There's an unusual love for Harold Bishop in England that worries me.