[PICTURES] Stoppage during third Sri Lanka vs India ODI after crowd throws bottles onto the field

[Abdullah719]

 

[Haripotter]

BCCI should be blamed for this.

 

[Rafa]

Indian fans did this 20 years ago in Calcutta during the Semis, Sri Lankan fans doing it two decades later over an insignificant match.

SL Cricket and fans have really hit new lows.

 

[Hitman]

While it's clearly disgraceful, it would be hypocritical of Indian fans to bash them. 96' WC SF match is still fresh in everyone's mind.

 

[Dios]

Although it is never ok to disrupt a game like this I can understand the frustration of the Sri Lankan fans. Their team has become a joke. And what's even funnier is that this joke of a team still gets full 3 Test, 5 ODI series against top teams.

 

[Markhor]

Sad to see, the Sri Lankan public's patience with their team seems to have snapped.

It's been a dispiriting year for them and they need to take a long look at their administration, domestic structure and selection policies.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Sad to see although I have some sympathy for them. They should express it in a different way though. Perhaps a complete boycott of the rest of the odi series? Let their players play in an empty stadium.

 

[Proactive_]

Sadly ICC, with their leniency have allowed to set a precedence for this. They should have nipped such behaviour in the bud. For instance, Eden Gardens should have been blacklisted from hosting international cricket forever after that 1996 WC incident, there should be absolute zero tolerance policy on such behaviour. There's no consequence for such behaviour.

 

[KhalidRafi]

Understand their frustration but shouldn't have done this. It's just disrespectful to the game and the players who give their all playing for their country.

 

[thehub]

Sadly ICC, with their leniency have allowed to set a precedence for this. They should have nipped such behaviour in the bud. For instance, Eden Gardens should have been blacklisted from hosting international cricket forever after that 1996 WC incident, there should be absolute zero tolerance policy on such behaviour. There's no consequence for such behaviour.

Did you not see the odi abandoned during India's tour to Pak in 89? remember the name Manoj Prabhakar.

 

[Proactive_]

Did you not see the odi abandoned during India's tour to Pak in 89? remember the name Manoj Prabhakar.

I agree actually. Every such behaviour should have been harshly dealt with. Kolkata 96 was just the crescendo on the big stage, pardoning something like that sent the message that such nonsensical behaviour would have no consequences even on the biggest of stages; which was an incredibly stupid precedence to set.

 

[ipl_fan]

Ya right. People who are angry with their team's performance will stop and take a deep breath to think about the consequences the stadium which they are sitting in will face before they start throwing bottles.

 

[Inswing]

Indian fans did this 20 years ago in Calcutta during the Semis, Sri Lankan fans doing it two decades later over an insignificant match.

SL Cricket and fans have really hit new lows.

Indians did the same against RSA in a bilateral t20 series

 

[hitthestump]

Is it really the players fault though? I can understand the frustration but every country goes through a dead period of talent eventually.

 

[90MPH]

At least it was aimed at their own team and not the opposition for beating them.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Sadly ICC, with their leniency have allowed to set a precedence for this. They should have nipped such behaviour in the bud. For instance, Eden Gardens should have been blacklisted from hosting international cricket forever after that 1996 WC incident, there should be absolute zero tolerance policy on such behaviour. There's no consequence for such behaviour.

Such behaviour often happens in other sports too. In 2015, in Toronto crowd throwed beer bottles(glass) and cans on to the field when refree made a call against home team during a playoff game against Texas(Baseball).

Coming back to cricket, Banning a stadium to host an international game ever based on one incident sounds too extreme and controversial. Instead of banning, authorities should just banned bottles into the stands. Eden garden is historic ground and i dont think ICC have the courage or capacity to ban it from hosting games.

 

[CanadianG00se]

At least it was aimed at their own team and not the opposition for beating them.

Well isnt tht obvious they will throw when match is almost lost. In this case, their team were fielding second so it looks as if they were aiming at their 'own players'. They would have done the same if their team were chasing and Indian team were fielding.

 

[Specialisttailender]

The police didn't do anything they were just standing there.

 

[Varun]

After the 1st ODI, a group of 50 fans held up the Lankan team bus and chanted slogans.

Last year during Pakistan's tour, they threw a boulder into the ground and play had to be stopped.

They sure are becoming quite hardcore.

 

[Cryin Out Loud]

While it's clearly disgraceful, it would be hypocritical of Indian fans to bash them. 96' WC SF match is still fresh in everyone's mind.

Fans' behaviour at Calcutta was disgraceful but not sure how it hypocritical for me to criticize it happening in Lanka.

A few years ago there was a murder in someone's country. That takes away the right of every citizen of that country to condemn murder elsewhere?

 

[Specialisttailender]

They finished the match with empty stadium.

 

[Specialisttailender]

Fans' behaviour at Calcutta was disgraceful but not sure how it hypocritical for me to criticize it happening in Lanka.

A few years ago there was a murder in someone's country. That takes away the right of every citizen of that country to condemn murder elsewhere?

In Kolkata we threw bottles at opposition players, today they threw bottle at their own players. Never will Indian fans throw bottle at our own players.

 

[Specialisttailender]

In Kolkata we threw bottles at opposition players, today they threw bottle at their own players. Never will Indian fans throw bottle at our own players.

Few cheers when Dhoni hit the winning runs as well.

 

[SL_Fan]

The bottles have finally hit the fan by the looks of things. Honestly I have just given up myself. Can't remember the last time I watched a full SL game. Don't see any thing changing same ol garbage from the muppets and jokers running the show. Feel for the players (the deserving ones that is) more than anything else. They are really up against it and it is their futures which are on the line.

 

[Abdullah719]

Post crowd violence in Pallekele: ICC seeks security assurance

ICC Match Referee Andy Pycroft has reportedly sought security assurance from the Sri Lankan cricket board for the remainder of the limited-overs series against India following boorish fan behaviour during the third ODI in Pallekele on Sunday.

Irate fans, angered by the Sri Lankan cricket team’s continued poor performances, threw water bottles into the ground as India reached within eight runs of winning the match and sealing the five-match series.

Play was halted for over 30 minutes while riot police arrived and escorted fans in the grass banks. Both teams returned to finish the game.

A Sri Lanka Cricket spokesman said he had not received any specific information while adding: “He (Pycroft) may have generally spoken about it.”

A group of fans also blocked the Sri Lankan team bus following their nine-wicket defeat in the first ODI at Dambulla on August 20.

The next two ODIs and a one-off Twenty20 game will be played at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The stadium had witnessed a fight between two groups of fans in 2015, during a one-day international between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

ICC Match Referee Javagal Srinath had halted the game after a stone was hurled on to the field of play following a fight in the terraced area of the stadium while Sri Lanka batted.

While police stopped violent spectators inside the stadium, others were throwing stones from outside the venue. Play resumed and Pakistan went on to win the game.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/P...kele-ICC-seeks-security-assurance-135558.html