8 most disgraceful acts in the history of Cricket

Cricket is indeed a battle between bat and ball

There are moments when Cricketers lose their cool on the field and get involved in verbal and physical altercations. But, there are a few occasions when the batsmen threw the bat at the bowler in anger. Here are a couple of them.

In a match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mitchell Starc fired in a bouncer at Kieron Pollard and the big Trinidadian failed to connect the bat to the ball. Starc whispered something at Pollard and the batsman asked the Aussie to walk back to his bowling mark and bowl the next delivery.

Following a verbal altercation, Pollard, for some reason, shied midway through Starc’s run-up and an annoyed Starc continued with his delivery stride and bowled the delivery angling at Pollard. The West Indian became furious at what happened and threw the bat at him.

There was one more similar incident in the past involving Marlon Samuels and Shane Warne during a BBL game between Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars. It all started when Samuels tried to tug the shirt of David Hussey and impede his run when Stars were batting.

When Samuels walked out to bat, Warne bowled three dot balls at the West Indian before verbally attacking him by saying, "C'mon Marlon. Do you want to grab some more people? F**k you, Marlon" in spite of being live on the microphone that was connected to the commentators.

Later, Warne appeared to softly toss a loose ball at Samuels's back when he was supposedly aiming for his wicketkeeper, prompting Samuels to angrily fling his bat towards Warne.