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Opponents fume at 'unfair' Kohli 'fake' - CtrlF.XYZ

Opponents fume at 'unfair' Kohli 'fake'

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Bangladesh has accused Virat Kohli of "fake fielding" during India's five-run triumph successful their T20 World Cup lucifer successful Adelaide.

The incidental occurred successful the seventh implicit of Bangladesh's innings, erstwhile opening batter Litton Das played a shot retired to heavy point.

As the instrumentality from Arshdeep Singh came in, Kohli, who was fielding connected the circle, pretended to propulsion towards the bowlers extremity arsenic the shot went past him.

Neither on-field umpire, Marais Erasmus oregon Chris Brown, took enactment astatine the time. The punishment for fake fielding is 5 runs, a authorisation that takes connected greater value fixed it was India's eventual borderline of victory.

Following a rainfall delay, Bangladesh finished connected 6/145, chasing an adjusted people of 151 from 16 overs.

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"We each saw that it was a bedewed ground," Bangladesh Nurul Hasan said.

"Eventually, erstwhile we speech astir these things, determination was besides a fake throw. It could person been a five-run penalty. That besides could person gone our way, but unfortunately, adjacent that didn't materialise."

Law 41.5 states that "it is unfair for immoderate fielder wilfully to attempt, by connection oregon action, to distract, deceive oregon obstruct either batter aft the striker has received the ball.

"The bowler's extremity umpire shall ... grant 5 punishment runs to the batting side, pass the skipper of the fielding broadside of the crushed for this enactment and arsenic soon arsenic practicable pass the skipper of the batting side."

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