Stars engage in incidents

Published January 17, 2006

LAHORE, Jan 16: The ongoing Test will perhaps be remembered for the total domination of the willow over the leather but two incidents added some spice to the fourth day’s action.

The incidents involved Pakistani pacemen Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami with Indian openers Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag.

First Shoaib Akhtar and Dravid had an eye-to-eye contact lasting nearly a minute but apparently without any verbal exchanges after the Indian skipper left a delivery from the fiery paceman. The two umpires were close to the players but made no move to intervene.

The second incident occurred between Sami and Sehwag who certainly exchanged few ‘pleasantries’ in the middle of the pitch and once again the umpires, Australian Darrell Hair and South African Rudi Koertzen, looked the other way.

At the time of filing this report, the rival camps have heard nothing from the match referee Ranjan Madugalle.

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