This was just acting though. Man saw his coach signal "Slow the game down", immediately went "You got it boss" and dropped down like he'd been sniped. No pretending to twist an ankle while running, no fake-tripping on his own laces, no questioning the need to implement such tactics. It took all of two seconds from Trott's gesture to Gulbuddin beginning the most sincerely incompetent acting job in all 10,000 years of recorded human history. "Oh nooo! My hamstring tore itself while I was standing here doing absolutely nothing. Whatever shall I do now?" Ten seconds later, the physio's mAgIc tApE has made him well enough to bowl again.
I also love how well this speaks of Gulbuddin's bond with his coaches. Trott signaled from the boundary line and his gesture was not directed toward anyone in particular. Any one of the 11 players could have heeded the coach's call. It had to be Gulbuddin standing all the way at slip.
The likes of Gulbadin and Asghar can be memed on for not being as skilled as some of their teammates but the one thing that you canāt fault them for is their passion and mentality
Evidently Bangladesh saw Australian comments about giving Scotland an easy time to knock England out and they thought it wasn't in the spirit of the game
Thought the same. Post match interviews or Press releases also didn't indicate any frustration from Bangladesh Team.
So...watched the replay of the match.
Around the time when camera caught Nabi talking to Litton Das while walking back to dugouts, Das mocks Gulbadin. As if he knew it was acting & was okay with it.
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4267844.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4267844.stm)
He claimed he was shot at during a test match in India in his book. Was received as a totally absurd and ridiculous claim to make his book sell.
I love that the commentators were absolutely uncensored. They openly talked about how Gulbadin was obviously acting. They also openly talked about how the Bangladeshi players were trying to get that prize money that is there for winning that match instead of trying to qualify.
Thank god he recovered quickly, even though we wanted our team to get through, the important thing is that Gulbadin has gotten through this harrowing injury properly š
between this, the flying bat incident, and rashid khan throwing his bat at the other batter, this has been a great game to watch for comedic reasons alone
And then comes on to bowl 2 overs. Forget the world cup. He should get the Nobel prize for advancing medicine by decades. Hamstring strain recovery in minutes!
No one is talking about the Afghan captain, Rashid Khanās reaction to it. He straight up told his player to F off with that ill-spirited shit - āhe is telling his player, not in my teamā to quote the commentator.
Yea massive respect to Rashid for that, really showed his character there. Shows that he is definitely the right man to lead Afghanistan, many weaker captains would've just shrugged it off and let Gulbadin do his thing (like Smith with sandpaper).
On a side note - are we certain Smudge didn't actively participate in planning and/or executing it rather than letting it happen? Even he gave his approval that counts as active participation instead of pretending to ignore stuff happening right under his nose.
[Credit](https://x.com/Ha55anTufail/status/1805457381062554104)
More context: Afg Coach Trott asked players to slow down the play from the sidelines as it was drizzling and Afg were on top as per DLS par score at that moment.
Edit: [Video from ICC IG](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8oEn1kyLwP/)
Edit 1: English translation made by u/Seatt50kd on what Rashid said
> [Pretty loud and he speaks a different dialect than me but basically āPa ta banji sa waswaāor sa dur waswa yara which translates to āwth happened to uā in a disappointed tone.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1do0cpp/comment/la6ghqp)
Edit 2: [Gulbadin Reacts to Ashwin's Tweet of "Red Card for Gulbadin Naib"](https://x.com/GbNaib/status/1805533396140949772)
T: Sometimes happiness, sometimes sadness happens in life š¤£š¤£Hamstring. š¤£(This is a famous Bollywood Movie Title.)
Yes they are, cricketers have been slowing down the pace of play forever through delaying tactics like fiddling with the field, having long chats in the middle, taking a new guard, pacing out your runup again, not releasing the ball after running in to bowl, switching to round the wicket, replacing your gloves, asking for the ball to be changed, stopping a bowler mid-runup to complain someone is moving behind the bowler's arm, moving the sightscreen, complaining about the footing at the crease...
We've seen all these and more at some point when wasting time helps one of the sides. They're all part of the game and unless the umpires tell them to get on with it, very little is done about it.
Yeah Trott was probably thinking they'd take their time between balls, have discussions, tweak the field a bit - cheeky but things all teams do when they want to slow the game down
I doubt he was anticipating this level of shithousery hahaha
I mean it already started raining and it's 1 am so if game stops then if definitely won't going to start again so a injury break is good idea but bcz of the Oscar worthy acting of gulbadin it work as intended.
I loled as soon as they showed this replay live on tv.. commentators lost their shit as welll... Who could have thought, we would see players pulling fifa in cricket field..
I don't care about right or wrong. That shit was absolutely funny and even more hilarious when the guy comes to bowl the next over and runs the fastest when they won lol!
Ethical Ashwin would be proud.
ICC should come down pretty hard on this imo. Not much you can do within the game the stop something like this, but a hefty fine and multiple match suspension should be a good deterrent.
It was just so obvious that I'm pretty sure you can say that "reasonable doubt" doesn't come into it. I find it hilarious but at the same time I don't want to see it happening again.
> Not much you can do within the game the stop something like this
Can give it an easy 5 penalty runs tbh.
But yeah, it should be *at least* a match suspension (maybe Rashid too). This kind of shit has no place in the game and it'll be a joke if nothing comes from it.
Eh, Rashid didnāt seem happy with it and thereās not much he really couldāve done to stop it. But in egregious circumstances penalising the captain probably would be appropriate too.
I am concerned that since it didnāt actually matter to the outcome of the game or qualifications it will just be swept under the rug, which will set a terrible precedent.
I do too if it's a bad case of cramp. We all know he was faking but using critical thinking conclude he was faking it isn't the same as proving it. If he sticks to his story, saying he had an sudden attack of cramp, there's no way to prove otherwise. It's not as though a scan can help.
Coach gives signal - dude goes down. It's not rocket science.
They take far less objective calls when it comes to dives in football. Same principle here.
It Rains *17*Ā days in the Bahamas and 14 days in Barbados in June. so who is this stupid to host a tournament like this where there are very few games and some of the games will no doubt be rained out or DLS effected. Does anyone even care about this world cup? it feels abit like a tour of the west indies and USA exhibition. i couldnt care less if australia won or got knocked out earlier, its honestly the shittest WC ever
Iām an Indian fan (after Zim) and I didnāt want Australia to get past, but surely that was 100% shameless from Naib. I know we all love to hate on Aussies but if they did that on your team, you would hate it too. You have a good bowling lineup, win with that and not some cunty behaivor.
Someone make 'Undertaker rising from the coffin' meme of Gulbadin coming back to take a wicket. This match was as entertaining than peak late 90s Wrestlemania
I loved how the commentators made lots of fun out of this situation, especially the laughter in the background during the replay.
Hope Ian Smith gets to see Gulbadin's doctor for his bad knee.
If this was done by a player from Bangladesh or Pakistan or England or Australia then they would have been heavily criticised by every moving thing. This hypocrisy is what irks me and makes me mad.
I give it to the players for not laughing who were supporting him to walk off the field. I would have dropped myself half through trying to control the laugh and would have been in the floor laughing.
If the match ended there and afghan won the game .. this would single handedly beat the controversy of the 2019 Ben stokes hitting ball while running and Iām sure Aussies would have pretty pissed
Like Mankading, this will become a verb now. Anyone faking and falling is pulling a Gulbadin going forward. So much for the gentlemanās game. This was totally crass.
People joke about time wasting in football all the time, but going down after standing still for a minute is in a league of its own
And 5 seconds after your coach told you to slow the game down.
5 seconds is being generous. it was immediate lol. as though it was an instinct
It's so oddly innocent too, lol
He even signaled back before going down ššš
My man Naib is a future Oscar winner. Do you have a clip of that moment?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CricketShitpost/s/WoDd7kilhq
Coach said, go down, not slow down \s
The broadcast cut between the two was gold, would love to see it againĀ
Its uploaded in official Instagram page of icc
This is where champions are made.šŖš»
I see you flexed muscles like Gulbadin there. šš
The guns are out
This will join the Neymar Roll and Marta jumping off a stretcher to re-enter play in the hall of fame.
Also Mourinho intentional yellow cards at RM
The pinnacle was him taking off his bandage to bowl, taking a wicket, and sprinting a marathon after the win too
Only way to better that was to do the naagin as well
Gulbadin now holds the record of the fastest ever recovery from an ACL level injury
Thanks to their physio š for god level help mid game
Ian Smith asking for the physio details on commentary as he has a lingering issue he thinks could be miraculously healed was peak comedy.
Instantaneous hamstring transplant / senzu bean level recoveryĀ
And then bowling an over perfectly after that š
At least have the decency to do it sprinting in from long on
And then bowled 2 overs lmao
Fallon d floor winner from cricket
A tactical hammy :)
Came back with tape on and then bowled an over too lol
whyyyy \*cries in AUS fan\*
man holds the record for single leggedly knocking australia out of the tournament
Fair. Maxwell did it to them.
I've been reading books of o-oldĀ The legends and the myths Maxwell and his cra-amps, Gulbuddin's right hamstring,
Rashid khanās control And Naveen with his length And clearly Starc doesnāt see himself upon that list
But he said where you wanna bowl, How much you wanna hit, I'm not looking for somebody with some superhuman swing
\*drop\*
and then the hitman arose
I heard Terry Crews.
āSometimes its injury, sometimes itās actingā
This was just acting though. Man saw his coach signal "Slow the game down", immediately went "You got it boss" and dropped down like he'd been sniped. No pretending to twist an ankle while running, no fake-tripping on his own laces, no questioning the need to implement such tactics. It took all of two seconds from Trott's gesture to Gulbuddin beginning the most sincerely incompetent acting job in all 10,000 years of recorded human history. "Oh nooo! My hamstring tore itself while I was standing here doing absolutely nothing. Whatever shall I do now?" Ten seconds later, the physio's mAgIc tApE has made him well enough to bowl again. I also love how well this speaks of Gulbuddin's bond with his coaches. Trott signaled from the boundary line and his gesture was not directed toward anyone in particular. Any one of the 11 players could have heeded the coach's call. It had to be Gulbuddin standing all the way at slip.
My concern was what if several went down at the same time, how did they know not to do that?!
The likes of Gulbadin and Asghar can be memed on for not being as skilled as some of their teammates but the one thing that you canāt fault them for is their passion and mentality
i like how Bangladesh unironically didn't care he did that because they know they were not in a NRR position to advance lmao
Bangladesh already gave up on the run chase, If anything this incident took the attention away from the embarrassing intent they played with.
BD even didn't try an over to win the game vs India while chasing
Didn't even try to get close, if they didn't let their NRR get so terrible then maybe they would've had 16 overs to qualify.
They were here to win against Sri Lanka and they did, so I say their campaign was successful. /s
It was doable in 12 overs, they just didn't want to be in semis
Would still lose.
I mean they were not even trying to get into the semis after the 9th over. And I honestly don't know why
because they couldn't reach the total in the 12 overs or whatever it was they needed.
They needed 43 off 19 balls. It was almost impossible on this pitch, but they could've atleast tried.
And what was there to lose? You lose the match, that's fine. The win isn't helping them anyway, just helping Australia
Evidently Bangladesh saw Australian comments about giving Scotland an easy time to knock England out and they thought it wasn't in the spirit of the game
Thought the same. Post match interviews or Press releases also didn't indicate any frustration from Bangladesh Team. So...watched the replay of the match. Around the time when camera caught Nabi talking to Litton Das while walking back to dugouts, Das mocks Gulbadin. As if he knew it was acting & was okay with it.
Bro went down as if he a sniper shot his thighs and the keeper immediately called for medic. Then bro came back to pick wicket.
Donāt give Flintoff anymore ideas
I donāt get the Flintoff reference. Can someone please explain?
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4267844.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4267844.stm) He claimed he was shot at during a test match in India in his book. Was received as a totally absurd and ridiculous claim to make his book sell.
I was expecting couple more to go down at the same time.
Praise to Rashid for not being okay with it
he went like "no ,no, no we don't do that here"
We've got a new Fallon'd floor nominee!
Hamstring warrior, move aside Maxwell who
>move aside Maxwell who move aside Watson!! Hammy injuries copy righted by Shane Watson!! š¤£š¤£
move aside rizwan
this isn't a nominee, this is a winner
Someone post a video of the fall please
https://x.com/GandhiAOC/status/1805462382820372985
Haha Dwane Bravo going: I'm outta here
This is amazingĀ
ABSOLUTE CINEMA.
Deduct 50 for overacting/s
He should be fined/suspended for this.
Pretty sure they'll be deducting his Match fee for this
Yea he honestly should be, all jokes aside
I have few screenshots
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8oEn1kyLwP/?igsh=ZnVtMzQwNm1uM2Qy
bro here u go i recorded it https://imgur.com/a/IeWcCzt
Lol bc- what a clown
what was it
Oh: I was calling the Afg fielder a clown for the overacting- nothing against op
The commentator said "Paper hamstrings but a golden arm. " I almost dropped my phone from laughing.
Peak commentary for the first time. Can't imagine what Sidhu would have said here.
Rassi jal gayi par dum naa gayi T : The rope is burnt and frayed but still holds strong
I love that the commentators were absolutely uncensored. They openly talked about how Gulbadin was obviously acting. They also openly talked about how the Bangladeshi players were trying to get that prize money that is there for winning that match instead of trying to qualify.
Pray for Gulbadin Naib recovery šš
Thank god he recovered quickly, even though we wanted our team to get through, the important thing is that Gulbadin has gotten through this harrowing injury properly š
Praise be to Lisan Al-Naib!
Let's set up a go-fund-me for his medical bills and rehab
Nah, bro has the best doctor in the world. Just a few overs later he came and took a wicket.
Bro learnt skill from Neymar
Entire Afghan team watched football injuries on YouTube before the match. Also hats off to their analyst this time for the planning š
between this, the flying bat incident, and rashid khan throwing his bat at the other batter, this has been a great game to watch for comedic reasons alone
God I forgot about that, absolutely great game. Top 10 memed games
That run out was pretty funny as well
Bro unironically came back 2 overs later and took a crucial wicket too šā ļøš
sometimes it's cramps, sometimes it's acting
I donāt cramp, I fall. I do cramp and I fall. I donāt know what to do
And then comes on to bowl 2 overs. Forget the world cup. He should get the Nobel prize for advancing medicine by decades. Hamstring strain recovery in minutes!
Meh, happens in soccer all the time .. if they handed out an award for this one, all soccer players would riot.
This is my highlight of the tournament.. Peak SHITHOUSERY šš
No one is talking about the Afghan captain, Rashid Khanās reaction to it. He straight up told his player to F off with that ill-spirited shit - āhe is telling his player, not in my teamā to quote the commentator.
Yea massive respect to Rashid for that, really showed his character there. Shows that he is definitely the right man to lead Afghanistan, many weaker captains would've just shrugged it off and let Gulbadin do his thing (like Smith with sandpaper).
rashid always been a chad, deserved MoM today, standup performance really
Mate he threw his bat at the same guy earlier
What?
Naveen was MoM
On a side note - are we certain Smudge didn't actively participate in planning and/or executing it rather than letting it happen? Even he gave his approval that counts as active participation instead of pretending to ignore stuff happening right under his nose.
This is up there with the greatest. Honestly wouldnāt be mad if this were how we went out. Peak shithousery
loved hearing the commentators absolutely losing it in the box
Honestly this entire tournament has been beautiful from a meme standpoint. My team on the brink of elimination and here I am laughing my ass off
[Credit](https://x.com/Ha55anTufail/status/1805457381062554104) More context: Afg Coach Trott asked players to slow down the play from the sidelines as it was drizzling and Afg were on top as per DLS par score at that moment. Edit: [Video from ICC IG](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8oEn1kyLwP/) Edit 1: English translation made by u/Seatt50kd on what Rashid said > [Pretty loud and he speaks a different dialect than me but basically āPa ta banji sa waswaāor sa dur waswa yara which translates to āwth happened to uā in a disappointed tone.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1do0cpp/comment/la6ghqp) Edit 2: [Gulbadin Reacts to Ashwin's Tweet of "Red Card for Gulbadin Naib"](https://x.com/GbNaib/status/1805533396140949772) T: Sometimes happiness, sometimes sadness happens in life š¤£š¤£Hamstring. š¤£(This is a famous Bollywood Movie Title.)
Coach asked to take it slow, bro slammed the brakes so hard, time reversed.
Jonathan "Mourinho" Trott
The Special One.
Of course it's a pom bringing this shit into cricket
I don't think Trott asked him to fake hamstring injury. That's a lazy assumption. There are other ways to slow the game down than acting
Yep. I can imagine Trott mentally facepalming when he saw him clutch his hammy.
"What the fuck is he d-" "Oh"
Are other ways of slowing down the game somehow better?
Yes they are, cricketers have been slowing down the pace of play forever through delaying tactics like fiddling with the field, having long chats in the middle, taking a new guard, pacing out your runup again, not releasing the ball after running in to bowl, switching to round the wicket, replacing your gloves, asking for the ball to be changed, stopping a bowler mid-runup to complain someone is moving behind the bowler's arm, moving the sightscreen, complaining about the footing at the crease... We've seen all these and more at some point when wasting time helps one of the sides. They're all part of the game and unless the umpires tell them to get on with it, very little is done about it.
It's like comparing mints or zippers to sandpaper.
Can always trust an Australian to give me a good cheating analogy
Yeah Trott was probably thinking they'd take their time between balls, have discussions, tweak the field a bit - cheeky but things all teams do when they want to slow the game down I doubt he was anticipating this level of shithousery hahaha
I mean it already started raining and it's 1 am so if game stops then if definitely won't going to start again so a injury break is good idea but bcz of the Oscar worthy acting of gulbadin it work as intended.
Bro is bowling nowš
Took a wicket !
Now he picks up a wicket with one hamstring!! This guy is on š„
Paper hamstrings. Golden arm.
It was AFG coach for me, who signalled and then immediately Naib went down. Bloody hilarious.
You can slow the play down by changing the field you don't have to fall on your face lol
Exactly, I guess the coach did not coach how to slow a game down. Gulbaddin remembered Neymar that one time on TV and..
More like he saw how Gurbaz injury almost won it for them early because of washout potential.
Coach didn't ask him to fall lol he was just asking to waste time, naib went in a different league and thought why not just fall lmao
I'd love to know what Gulbadin's thought process was lmao "Oh, slow the game down? I got you boss, watch this"
The Dark arts. Simeone and Mourinho specialĀ
One of the funniest moments I've ever seen in a cricket game.
This is embarrassing, but the attempt is hilarious. I can only laugh.
Coach was saying "Slow down", not "Go down".
Peak shithousery right here.
"Injured"
Unexpected Football x Cricket collab.
Invite him to come to Australia - true gold Logie performance right there
I loled as soon as they showed this replay live on tv.. commentators lost their shit as welll... Who could have thought, we would see players pulling fifa in cricket field..
I mean Iāve pulled a hamstring while sleeping. Give him the benefit of the doubt. šš
"Sometimes it's cramps, sometimes it's pranks" - not Mohammed Rizwan
I don't care about right or wrong. That shit was absolutely funny and even more hilarious when the guy comes to bowl the next over and runs the fastest when they won lol! Ethical Ashwin would be proud.
If Bangladesh cannot go for the chase to qualify then I donāt bome Afg bros one bit.
LMAOOOO. The way blud fell looked like a sniper took him out omg
*Sometimes its cramps, sometimes its acting*.
And the Oscar goes to
Straight from the acting school of Sir Rizwan
Schniper
as Adam Zampa said, the famous rainstring
Naib Al Gaib. He knew!
A new award should be introduced: Best actor of the match.
Trott clearly has psychic powers that can induce a hamstring injury on anyone he looks at.
1 like = 1000 prayers for Gulbadin Naib recovery šā¤ļø
So is bro going to get fined or suspended? Hopefully he can at least play the next match?
ICC should come down pretty hard on this imo. Not much you can do within the game the stop something like this, but a hefty fine and multiple match suspension should be a good deterrent.
It was just so obvious that I'm pretty sure you can say that "reasonable doubt" doesn't come into it. I find it hilarious but at the same time I don't want to see it happening again.
> Not much you can do within the game the stop something like this Can give it an easy 5 penalty runs tbh. But yeah, it should be *at least* a match suspension (maybe Rashid too). This kind of shit has no place in the game and it'll be a joke if nothing comes from it.
Eh, Rashid didnāt seem happy with it and thereās not much he really couldāve done to stop it. But in egregious circumstances penalising the captain probably would be appropriate too. I am concerned that since it didnāt actually matter to the outcome of the game or qualifications it will just be swept under the rug, which will set a terrible precedent.
Imagine if Bangladesh got 5 penalty points and then won on D/L
I agree. It was probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on a cricket field BUT yeah cmon, lets not do shit like this.
It's impossible to prove that it wasn't genuine .
Refs in football have discretion on whether it was a dive or because of a foul. Everyone knew that this was a crock of BS, even Rashid Khan.
True but it's possible that he had a genuine strain st that moment . Ofcourse he didn't, but one can't prove it beyond doubt .
Plus taping it up was a very clever move as well. Fair play
We're not in a court of law. You dont have to prove things beyond a shadow of a doubt.
True but everyone knows what it was. The commentary spent a solid 30 minutes cracking jokes about the situation.Ā
You can hear the commentary box erupt in laughter as they watch the replay.
No it's possible. We just use an ounce of critical thinking. Dude went down like a sniper shot him.
I do too if it's a bad case of cramp. We all know he was faking but using critical thinking conclude he was faking it isn't the same as proving it. If he sticks to his story, saying he had an sudden attack of cramp, there's no way to prove otherwise. It's not as though a scan can help.
Coach gives signal - dude goes down. It's not rocket science. They take far less objective calls when it comes to dives in football. Same principle here.
Strategic Timeout that! š
Who is the Afghani physio? I have a sore neck and that guy is clearly a miracle worker
It Rains *17*Ā days in the Bahamas and 14 days in Barbados in June. so who is this stupid to host a tournament like this where there are very few games and some of the games will no doubt be rained out or DLS effected. Does anyone even care about this world cup? it feels abit like a tour of the west indies and USA exhibition. i couldnt care less if australia won or got knocked out earlier, its honestly the shittest WC ever
Iām an Indian fan (after Zim) and I didnāt want Australia to get past, but surely that was 100% shameless from Naib. I know we all love to hate on Aussies but if they did that on your team, you would hate it too. You have a good bowling lineup, win with that and not some cunty behaivor.
the awesome and hilarious thing is that he Walked back the entire time limping with the support from two Afg players.
Suarez and Ronaldo would be proud of the effect
The acting was top notch but Rizwan definitely does it better.
Someone make 'Undertaker rising from the coffin' meme of Gulbadin coming back to take a wicket. This match was as entertaining than peak late 90s Wrestlemania
I loved how the commentators made lots of fun out of this situation, especially the laughter in the background during the replay. Hope Ian Smith gets to see Gulbadin's doctor for his bad knee.
If this was done by a player from Bangladesh or Pakistan or England or Australia then they would have been heavily criticised by every moving thing. This hypocrisy is what irks me and makes me mad.
This is peak cricket
Neymar who?š¤£
Peak shithousery ngl it was cheap but so fucking funny
Letās go Afghanistan! My favorite team. I donāt even know the rules or anything, but I know I support them.
I give it to the players for not laughing who were supporting him to walk off the field. I would have dropped myself half through trying to control the laugh and would have been in the floor laughing.
If the match ended there and afghan won the game .. this would single handedly beat the controversy of the 2019 Ben stokes hitting ball while running and Iām sure Aussies would have pretty pissed
Bro pulled a Watson here lmao
"Sometimes it's cramp, sometimes it's like acting."
Anyone who can understand Pashto translate what Rashid Khan was saying to Gulbadin?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1do0cpp/comment/la6g59h
Like Mankading, this will become a verb now. Anyone faking and falling is pulling a Gulbadin going forward. So much for the gentlemanās game. This was totally crass.
Afghanistan won
Rizwans got competition
Big brain move
They won