ICC suspends Jason Holder and the cricketing world comes out to support him

The Windies have been putting up some promising performances against England in the home Test series. They won the first Test by a huge margin of 381 runs, which lit up the eyebrows of the entire cricketing fraternity.

In that match, the Windies captain led from the front by scoring a scintillating double century while Kemar Roach led the bowling attack and the spirited unit eventually bowled England out for 77 in the first innings of the the Test.

The Caribbean side carried the momentum into the second Test as well. They bowled out England under 200 in both the innings of the 2nd Test. Roach was among the highest wicket-takers once again as his team went on to win the Test by 10 wickets and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match Test series.

The major credit of this historic victory goes to Jason Holder, whose phenomenal all-around performance and inspiring leadership skills played a huge role in the memorable victory.

But unfortunately, when everything was panning out for the home team, ICC charged the Windies captain with a one-match suspension which evoked a debate among cricket fans and experts.

The Test ended inside three days but Jason Holder has still been suspended because of slow over rate which was quite shocking and made everyone support the 27-year-old.

Jason Holder almost single-handedly won his team the Test series against this highly-rated English side and also reached the no.1 spot in ICC Test rankings for all-rounders.

And with everything falling in place for the Barbadian cricketer, this suspension will undoubtedly hurt him badly.

ICC went by the rules but people think there should have been a thought process before imposing such a penalty and ICC needs some rethinking regarding some rules.

Here’s how the world reacted to this suspension :

Michael Vaughan:

For a game that finished inside 3 days I find this absolutely bonkers ... https://t.co/ewfheUL9ri

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) February 3, 2019

Piers Morgan:

Ridiculous, isn’t it? Yet I am seeing high profile cricket people on here defending it... no wonder Test cricket audiences are falling off. Inspiring captain of exciting new Windies team suspended for ‘slow play’ after thrashing his opponents with 2 days to spare. Unbelievable. https://t.co/UlbYMPHo1A

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 3, 2019

Shane Warne:

The test didn’t go 3 days - can you please appeal this @JaseHolder98 ! What a ridiculous decision - where’s the common sense here ? Ps Congrats on a wonderful series win too. International cricket needs a strong Windies team & hopefully this is just the start @BrianLara https://t.co/dxKXDnAib7

— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) February 3, 2019

Tom Moody:

Sorry just don’t get it, aren’t we trying to help test cricket? https://t.co/ULcS6NGooG

— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket) February 3, 2019

Darren Gough:

There was 2 days to play 😱

— Darren Gough (@DGoughie) February 3, 2019

Ali Martin:

Jason Holder suspended for the third Test due to slow over-rate. Once again cricket gets out the blunderbuss, takes aim at its own foot and pulls the trigger...

— Ali Martin (@Cricket_Ali) February 3, 2019

Peter Della Penna:

Jason Holder and the rest of the bowling unit clearly not ruthless enough. Hidden message by ICC is that they should have finished England off in two days instead of three. Or is it that they failed a beep test? I'm confused. https://t.co/tmVaPAbaNX

— Peter Della Penna (@PeterDellaPenna) February 3, 2019