The whole cricketing world was stunned after watching the incidence involving South Africa’s wicketkeeper QUINTON De Kock and Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman, who allegedly got distracted by a ‘Fake Fielding’ call by Quinton and ‘fell in to the trap’, to get dismissed at an individual score of 195.
Many Cricket pundits and Pakistan legends have criticized QDK for his spirit of the game. But there are some personnel who aren’t questioning the generous intent of Quinton and are sympathetic towards Fakhar. One such individual happens to be, Tabraiz Shamsi, QDK’s teammate who wants the unnecessary criticism thrown towards Quinton to stop.
Shamsi was very vocal about the incident on Twitter:
So it's not funny that the batsman stopped running instead of completing the run?
Lets not take the attention away from a great innings that he played and give him credit for that
The batman's job in that instance was to complete the run that all…
As simple as that 🙂
— Tabraiz Shamsi (@shamsi90) April 5, 2021
He even replied to a response by an user on his previous tweet as well.
I was on the field and you were not… so you are the one making assumptions 😀
He was pointing at the stumps at the non strikers end to tell the fielder to back up there
You do know we are always supposed to back up both ends right no matter where you think the throw might go? https://t.co/L2wwHUIME2
— Tabraiz Shamsi (@shamsi90) April 5, 2021
The cricketing world surely stands divided at the moment after the incident. Many Pakistani greats like Shoaib Akhtar, Waqar Younis questioned “Fake Fielding” rule’s legitimacy here.
