7) Gautam Gambhir’s throw at the non-striker’s end
The Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir, who has often been embroiled in controversies, got involved into another during the match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Eden Gardens.
KKR batting first put a score of 183 on the board which was easily chased down by RCB and the Bangalore team won the match by 9 wickets.
In the 19th over of the match, Virat Kohli hit the ball towards the point which was fielded by Gambhir. Then out of nowhere Gambhir threw the ball towards the non-striker's end, where Kohli was standing after completing the run. The RCB captain, who got hit on the hand during the game, was completely taken aback.
The on-field umpires saw the incident and had a talk with Gambhir which presumably miffed the southpaw. It also led to an altercation between the officials and the KKR skipper and the reason behind the sudden anger remained unclear.
Virat played a stupendous knock to guide his team to the target and Gambhir might have been ruing an opportunity that he missed. He dropped a simple catch of Kohli and some people thought that the incident was just out of sheer frustration.
Again behaviour which was totally uncalled for. Gambhir even earned a lot of flak on social media.
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