IPL 2021 Controversies: The IPL 2021 is coming to its business end with all 8 teams having played 10 or more matches. The UAE leg of the cash-rich league has seen many interesting matches and more than the matches there were shocking on and off the field events which kept IPL 2021 in news. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s David Warner was removed from the captaincy in 2021 and was then not picked in the playing XI as well. Royal Challengers Bangalore’s skipper Virat Kohli also decided to step down from the captaincy after the IPL 2021. There were many such controversies that kept fans glued to IPL 2021 phase 2.
IPL 2021 Controversies: Ashwin called ‘cheat’, Warner thrown out of SRH XI, Kohli quits RCB captaincy, check top controversies in IPL Phase 2
IPL 2021 Controversies: Virat Kohli decides to quit RCB captaincy after IPL 2021
Virat Kohli to step down from RCB captaincy after #IPL2021
“This will be my last IPL as captain of RCB. I’ll continue to be an RCB player till I play my last IPL game. I thank all the RCB fans for believing in me and supporting me.”: Virat Kohli#PlayBold #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/QSIdCT8QQM
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) September 19, 2021
RCB’s captain Virat Kohli, who is also the all-time leading run-scorer in IPL’s history declared that he will not be leading the side after IPL 2021. However, he also made it clear that he will play for RCB only. Virat became part of RCB in 2008 after his heroics in the U-19 World Cup in the same here. Ever since then he has been a part of Challengers squad. Virat has named full-time captain of RCB in 2013. The talisman also announced that he will step down from the captaincy of Team India in the T20 format after ICC T20 World Cup.
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IPL 2021 Controversies: David Warner out of playing XI, asked to stay in hotel
Sunrisers Hyderabad veteran cricketer David Warner, who is one of the leading run-scorers for their team and was the captain of the side when they lift the trophy in 2016, was removed from the captaincy in 2021 and was then removed from the playing XI as well.
Warner, who has scored more than 5000 runs (in all) in IPL history at an average of 41.59 and a strike rate of 139.96, including four tons and 50 half-centuries, has accumulated just 195 runs in 8 matches in the ongoing season, averaging 24.37. His strike rate for 2021, 107.73, is the lowest of all his 12 IPL editions so far.
Warner was not only dropped from the XI, team management asked him to stay put in hotel itself.
1. I turned to run the moment I saw the fielder throw and dint know the ball had hit Rishabh.
2. Will I run if I see it!?
Of course I will and I am allowed to.
3. Am I a disgrace like Morgan said I was?
Of course NOT.— Mask up and take your vaccine🙏🙏🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) September 30, 2021
IPL 2021 Controversies: R Ashwin called ‘CHEAT’ as he had spat with Tim Southee and Eoin Morgan
Delhi Capitals bowler R Ashwin and Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Tim Southee were involved in a heated exchange after the former was dismissed by Southee in the last over of the DC innings at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Skipper Eoin Morgan and Dinesh Karthik intervened to prevent any escalation of the event. In a video, we can see R Ashwin showing his dissent over a verbal remark made by the New Zealand pacer.
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DC skipper Rishabh Pant and Ashwin had picked a second run off the last ball of the 19th over and that seemed to have irked the KKR outfit as some consider it to be against the guidelines of Fair Play to take a run when the ball thrown by the fielder ricochets off the batter. It finally needed former KKR skipper Eoin Morgan to come and stop the heated chat. DC coach Ricky Ponting was also seen speaking to umpire Nitin Menon during the innings break. While one isn’t sure about the topic that was discussed by the two, it could be the same point.
IPL 2021 Controversies: Kuldeep Yadav not worth KKR XI, Indian spinner accuse franchise & captain for ‘NO communication’
Kuldeep Yadav has played just 5 games for KKR since 2019 IPL. The talismanic spinner who was once India’s premier spinner in the shortest format of the game was not picked by KKR in the playing XI for over 20 matches. Things changed drastically since the 2019 IPL when Kuldeep had a slump in form and since then his career went southwards as the Indian team management lost faith in his abilities even on rank turners, where classical left-arm orthodox Shahbaz Nadeem was picked from the stand-by, but Kuldeep, who was in the main squad, didn’t get a chance.
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The 26-year-old from Kanpur has played 7 Tests, 65 ODIs and 23 T20Is for a total of 174 wickets across formats. He last played for India in Sri Lanka but it was more of a middling performance with best figures of 2/48 in an ODI game and 2/30 in a T20 International. He played two more games during that tour — an ODI and a T20I — in which he went wicket-less.
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