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On This Day: February 19, 1999 - A riot in Calcutta after Tendulkar was run out against Pakistan

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The run-out that sparked a riot

When the first match in the inaugural Asian Test Championship descended into chaos with the controversial run-out of India's hero Sachin Tendulkar

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https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...ia-vs-pakistan-1st-match-63830/full-scorecard


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Tendulkar should have been banned for storming into the third umpires room demanding to see the video. He caused the problem by refusing to accept the umpires decision. Coming out of the third umpires room shaking his head trying to make out he had been robbed.
 
I use to look forward to games at Eden Gardens. Seems to have lost some of its sparkle over the years.
 
London_Lahori said:
I use to look forward to games at Eden Gardens. Seems to have lost some of its sparkle over the years.
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Eden crowd was infamous for disrupting the game when India starts losing.. well it happened way back in 1999 when Pakistan was about to beat India and the crowd couldn't digest Tendulkar being given run out .. it was funny..

Also in 1996, WC SF, it was a really cheap shot when they tried to disrupt the game, (may be ) hoping that a game disrupted will not result in India's loss.. India was knocked out fairly from WC.. and it left the impression of poor Indian crowds world over.

Now it doesn't happen as much, but the impression of poor spirit by India's best ground people remains..
 
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tempus123 said:
Eden crowd was infamous for disrupting the game when India starts losing.. well it happened way back in 1999 when Pakistan was about to beat India and the crowd couldn't digest Tendulkar being given run out .. it was funny..

Also in 1996, WC SF, it was a really cheap shot when they tried to disrupt the game, (may be ) hoping that a game disrupted will not result in India's loss.. India was knocked out fairly from WC.. and it left the impression of poor Indian crowds world over.

Now it doesn't happen as much, but the impression of poor spirit by India's best ground people remains..
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They have the crowd caged these days, for a reason.
 
London_Lahori said:
I use to look forward to games at Eden Gardens. Seems to have lost some of its sparkle over the years.
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Still my favourite ground for Cricket. The venue for one of the greatest turnarounds and the start of a good spell for India. #Kolkata2001
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On this day 1999. A riot in Kolkata after Tendulkar's run out as Pakistan closed in on a remarkable victory <a href="https://t.co/Cv4RbK609E">https://t.co/Cv4RbK609E</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/833241362317328385">February 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Tendulkar should've been man of the match just like in Chennai for his fighting "9" in the 4th innings. If only the poor guy wasn't run out.
 
Great match and was fun watching the Indians riot. Fun fact, water bottles are banned in all indian stadiums :ashwin
 
We got robbed.Shoaib obstructed tendulkar,purposeful or not.This type of runout is illegal today,but on that day the loophole was used.
 
Fish said:
Tendulkar should have been banned for storming into the third umpires room demanding to see the video. He caused the problem by refusing to accept the umpires decision. Coming out of the third umpires room shaking his head trying to make out he had been robbed.
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Yea, sure .....

Eventually the umpires took the players from the field for an early tea and it was only after personal pleas from Tendulkar and ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya that the match was able to resume. "It was good of Sachin to go out and pacify the crowd," said Dinesh Vajpal, Calcutta's chief of police.
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austerlitz said:
We got robbed.Shoaib obstructed tendulkar,purposeful or not.This type of runout is illegal today,but on that day the loophole was used.
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Pakistan indulged in such illegal behaviour quite a lot. Remember the catch of Ganguly that they claimed, which was bumped and they forced umpire to give him out. Was a very poor display of sportsmanship from Pakistani players.
 
How the hell did Kolkata manage to cling on to hosting rights after this and the 96 incident is beyond me. Quite possibly the worst cricketing crowd ever.
 
Rightarmfast said:
Pakistan indulged in such illegal behaviour quite a lot. Remember the catch of Ganguly that they claimed, which was bumped and they forced umpire to give him out. Was a very poor display of sportsmanship from Pakistani players.
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I think it was worse that Saqlain bowled those deliveries to get the Indian players out. Poor sportsmanship truly, they should have let the India win in front of their home crowd.
 
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Oh man! how amazing would it be to have test tri-series. Imagine India-SA-Australia with each team playing the other twice, with a home and away leg. Boards need to get more creative under the ICC test league
 
Railu Katta said:
I think it was worse that Saqlain bowled those deliveries to get the Indian players out. Poor sportsmanship truly, they should have let the India win in front of their home crowd.
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Not really, dont think Saqlain chucked.. or did he? As far as cheating is concerned, yes, they were at the top of their game :)
 
Rightarmfast said:
Pakistan indulged in such illegal behaviour quite a lot. Remember the catch of Ganguly that they claimed, which was bumped and they forced umpire to give him out. Was a very poor display of sportsmanship from Pakistani players.
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talking about this one ?

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Lol Indians taking moral high ground :))

It wasn't anybody's fault or against the rules at the time. Stop whining.
 
austerlitz said:
We got robbed.Shoaib obstructed tendulkar,purposeful or not.This type of runout is illegal today,but on that day the loophole was used.
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Unless Akhtar has eyes in the back of his head, there is no way he could possibly know where Tendulkar was. Akhtar was looking forward waiting for the throw to come in from cow corner, he moved back as and ended up outside of the strip. Tendulkar was running but was also ball watching and ran into the back of the Akhtar. It was a fair run out then and would be now.
 
KingKhanWC said:
Unless Akhtar has eyes in the back of his head, there is no way he could possibly know where Tendulkar was. Akhtar was looking forward waiting for the throw to come in from cow corner, he moved back as and ended up outside of the strip. Tendulkar was running but was also ball watching and ran into the back of the Akhtar. It was a fair run out then and would be now.
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Nope.
Firstly akhtar was standing in tendulkar's normal running path.That was obstruction,conscious or not.
Second and most important,tendulkar had already grounded his bat once.but after the collision with akhtar his bat was lifted up in the air once more when ball hit.That type of run out is now illegal.Pak used a loophole.
 
Interesting fact. Tendulkar was the first ever batsman to be given out by 3rd Umpire. It was a runout. 1992 from memory.
 
austerlitz said:
Nope.
Firstly akhtar was standing in tendulkar's normal running path.That was obstruction,conscious or not.
Second and most important,tendulkar had already grounded his bat once.but after the collision with akhtar his bat was lifted up in the air once more when ball hit.That type of run out is now illegal.Pak used a loophole.
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There is no such thing as a normal running path. A batsmen can run as close or as far away from the stump as he likes. A fielder is allowed to position himself to collect the ball from a throw near the stumps, it's up to the batsmen to run in a direction where he is safe from collision, unless the fielder deliberately changes direction to stop the batsmen there is no infringement. Akthar was not looking at Tendulkar, he did not know where he was. Tendulkar was ball watching instead of looking where he was going and ran into Akthar. He should have moved to the left as there was plenty of room to run and put his bat in.
 
KingKhanWC said:
There is no such thing as a normal running path. A batsmen can run as close or as far away from the stump as he likes. A fielder is allowed to position himself to collect the ball from a throw near the stumps, it's up to the batsmen to run in a direction where he is safe from collision, unless the fielder deliberately changes direction to stop the batsmen there is no infringement. Akthar was not looking at Tendulkar, he did not know where he was. Tendulkar was ball watching instead of looking where he was going and ran into Akthar. He should have moved to the left as there was plenty of room to run and put his bat in.
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Whether obstruction was conscious or not,fact is tendulkar had grounded his bat once already.Collision created an unrealistic and now illegal dismissal.
 
SRT run out was forgivable, its upto the batsmen to be aware of his obstacles but that Moin Khan catch of Ganguly was brutal, I haven't seen such pathetic cheating in any sport for that matter.
 
Romali_rotti said:
SRT run out was forgivable, its upto the batsmen to be aware of his obstacles but that Moin Khan catch of Ganguly was brutal, I haven't seen such pathetic cheating in any sport for that matter.
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You don't remember Rashid Latif picking up the ball from the ground and claiming a catch against Bangladesh in that famous Test match? It was adjudged out. Most of all, Rashid Latif said around a couple of years ago that he doesn't regret his actions and all. He also said to his team mates back then he doesn't care if he is banned for 10 Tests, but they had to win that Test.
 
Incredible scenes at Eden Gardens. Hopefully never to be repeated again - anywhere
 
I look at this as an example of how generous Indians are.

Captain Wasim Akram was asked by the umpires if he wanted to withdraw the immoral appeal, but he refused.

And yet, in the years since this shameful runout decision, Wasim has only been showered with love and respect in India :rabada2
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> in 1999. A riot in Kolkata after Sachin Tendulkar's run out as Pakistan closed in on a remarkable victory after being 26/6 in their first innings <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/urahCKfe9C">pic.twitter.com/urahCKfe9C</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1362700064012070912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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MenInG said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> in 1999. A riot in Kolkata after Sachin Tendulkar's run out as Pakistan closed in on a remarkable victory after being 26/6 in their first innings <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/urahCKfe9C">pic.twitter.com/urahCKfe9C</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1362700064012070912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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:)))

Look at that pint-sized Tendulkar taking down the hunky Shoaib Akhtar. Sending him doubled down to the ground.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight....

Also, note that Sachin never once apologized or threw a glance in Shoaib's moaning direction. He knew exactly what the guy was up to. Shoaib interested in fielding or backing up a throw when it's not him bowling.... :afridi1
 
pillionrider said:
:)))

Look at that pint-sized Tendulkar taking down the hunky Shoaib Akhtar. Sending him doubled down to the ground.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight....

Also, note that Sachin never once apologized or threw a glance in Shoaib's moaning direction. He knew exactly what the guy was up to. Shoaib interested in fielding or backing up a throw when it's not him bowling.... :afridi1
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Clear case of Shoaib was faking his injury and wanting to take focus off him deliberately coming in front of Tendulkar. Akram should've recalled Tendulkar, no way he should have paid so dearly for Shoaib's blatant act of obstructing the batsman.
 
Even though this happened 22 years ago, it's still quite clear in my memory as if it happened a day or two ago. Funny thing, our memories.

I had no understanding of the dubious nature of fair play back then, so thought Tendulkar getting run out was fair game. I haven't really changed my opinion since.
 
Sachin is not running in a straight line, and Shoaib is backing up and moving backwards, there's no way he intentionally meant that to happen.
 
Was an unfair dismissal. PCT should have done what Dhoni/SRT did during the Ian Bell incident.

The Ganguly-Moin incident in Chennai was also poor. I guess teams were more desperate to win back in the day.
 
pillionrider said:
:)))

Look at that pint-sized Tendulkar taking down the hunky Shoaib Akhtar. Sending him doubled down to the ground.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight....

Also, note that Sachin never once apologized or threw a glance in Shoaib's moaning direction. He knew exactly what the guy was up to. Shoaib interested in fielding or backing up a throw when it's not him bowling.... :afridi1
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Lol. We should arrange a boxing match between the pair to prove your theory eh? Talk about seeing what you want to see :))
 
pillionrider said:
:)))

Look at that pint-sized Tendulkar taking down the hunky Shoaib Akhtar. Sending him doubled down to the ground.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight....

Also, note that Sachin never once apologized or threw a glance in Shoaib's moaning direction. He knew exactly what the guy was up to. Shoaib interested in fielding or backing up a throw when it's not him bowling.... :afridi1
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I guess when you lose the match, you really do need to latch onto the choti choti khushiyan.
 
hitthestump said:
Lol. We should arrange a boxing match between the pair to prove your theory eh? Talk about seeing what you want to see :))
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Given Sachin's ability to understand technique and pick up new things, I'd bet on him winning a boxing match between the two.

A desi-style wrestling match would probably go Akhtar's way :rabada2
 
pillionrider said:
Do you have any explanation for Shoaib being floored by pint-sized Sachin and looking visibly in pain :srt
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Is that really something that needs explaining? :ibutt

But I’m glad you got something to cheer for despite losing the match. :usman

I thought Pak fans were the only ones who sought out these small victories despite losing games, guess it’s a South Asian thing in general :srt
 
Technics 1210 said:
Did Tendulkar say anything to calm the crowd? No. Selfish as always.
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He did...he paraded the whole ground asking fans to calm down. Only after the appeal from Sachin match could restart. Ofcourse fans got violent again later after Azhar's dismissal which lead to the remaining test being played behind closed door.

Sachin was never selfish...he dosen't suck up to Pakistanis like Virat does though.
 
22 years later...same fans are calling him anti national over a tweet and spilling blank ink on his portrait. LOL
 
Rajdeep said:
22 years later...same fans are calling him anti national over a tweet and spilling blank ink on his portrait. LOL
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It is obvious when a person who was considered god of game starts licking the boots of ruling party, ignoring the farmers protest.
 
Akhtar couldn't do much about it. It was an accident.

The rules state he was short of his ground therefore correctly given out.

I guess, Pakistan if they really wanted to, they could have withdrawn their appeal. But it was Sachin, it was India v Pakistan :)
 
Saj said:
Akhtar couldn't do much about it. It was an accident.

The rules state he was short of his ground therefore correctly given out.

I guess, Pakistan if they really wanted to, they could have withdrawn their appeal. But it was Sachin, it was India v Pakistan :)
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Agreed SRT run out was on him, his responsibility to get to the other end safely. Wasim recalling him back Charity was not needed.
 
Remember when Inzamam was out " obstructing the field " in the 2006 Peshawar ODI in a close run chase - most Indian fans were so happy bcoz it was payback of sorts . Pakistan captain talked about spirit of the game only for Indians to remind him of this Eden Gardens incident. Poor Wasim Akram ( captain in 1999 ) got caught in the cross fire & had to say it was Inzamam's fault for not knowing the rules ( coz people were questioning Akram for his lack of sportsmanship spirit for the Eden Gardens incident )
 
Pretty disgusting behaviour by the crowd - thankfully all history now
 
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