#tour incident

2 incidents tagged

The Idris Baig Affair — Water-Pouring at Peshawar, 1956

Pakistan vs MCC

1956-02-12

During an MCC under-25 tour match at Peshawar in February 1956, captain Donald Carr and several team-mates donned masks, abducted Pakistani umpire Idris Baig from his hotel and dragged him to Billy Sutcliffe's room where they doused him with buckets of water. The incident, born of frustration with Baig's umpiring, almost ended the tour and triggered demonstrations on the streets of Peshawar.

#pakistan#mcc#idris-baig

🔥Explosive

The Sydney Cricket Riot — Lord Harris Attacked, 1879

New South Wales v England

1879-02-08

On 8 February 1879 — strictly outside the 1880s but the curtain-raiser to the decade — about 2,000 Sydney spectators invaded the pitch after Australian batsman Billy Murdoch was given run out by the English-engaged Victorian umpire George Coulthard. Lord Harris, the English captain, was struck with a stick; AN Hornby's shirt was torn off; play was suspended. The riot poisoned Anglo-Australian cricket relations for years and explains why no Test was scheduled in England before September 1880.

#1879#sydney#riot