A sport is meant to be full of losses and wins. And a sport comes with its players, but one of the best things about sports is, it helps people to understand the importance of sportsmanship. But there are times when players become nemeses. Unnecessary hatred against each other, obviously for specific reasons. Some do get justified and some don’t.
Here are the 5 cricketers, who are hated:
1. Andrew Symonds
The time he got involved in the monkey gate scandal issue, which had Harbhajan Singh in it, Indian fans just turned their backs on him. But that was just the beginning. This drama affected his career deeply as well.
Since the time Indians turned their back, he held grudges against the Indians well. A back in 2007, he started taking wickets just out of pity and to show this aggression towards the entire fandom. But obviously, he got paid back by another Indian cricket for his behavior. That’s some real stirred-up drama, geez.
2. Ricky Ponting
Most of the dramas that happen became of a whole fandom’s beef against a cricket. Sometimes the fault is not that extravagant to create such a drama, but it always does end up with some humongous drama.
Pointing is one of the most terrific players ever known. He has amazing skills and practice is the backbone of the team he plays for while leading Australia rationally.
But we all know about the dispute that happened between India and Australia back in 2007 which led to a lot of drama and the creation of nemesis among the teams. Ganguly was furious when Pointing confirmed that the dismissals that had been given by Steve and that created this huge mess. Wherein it was all a lack of communication and understanding between the teams. This whole mess made Seinath back down and keep his calm.
3. Andrew Flintoff
Andrew chose a different career after he was done with cricket. And it is completely an off career for someone who used to be a brilliant cricketer, now he joined boxing and as expected he’s flourishing in that too.
This is the famous case where Sourav got triggered and pulled of the iconic shirt wave during the match in Lord’s. Where Andrew waved his jersey on winning the match against India to mark England’s victory. Since then he has been hated but Sourav made sure to give the exact same behavior to that team on winning the next match.
4. Javed Miandad
Though some people might not agree and justify the fact that he’s hated and that’s completely okay. But Miandad mocked players like Kiran More for just appealing against him. And him pulling off behavior like that is hugely immature regardless of the fact that.
Not only that, there was a time when he literally smacked Chetan Sharma for hitting a six. Indian fans took it in the most surprising way considering the fact that he was being deadly unprofessional.
5. Shahid Afridi
Pakistan and India themselves are a huge mess when they are faced off together. But this controversy depended on the hatred against the two even more. Shahid could’ve replied in a normal way when he was asked a question, instead, he replied in a very rough and practically spat out the answer.
He also said that Indian cricketers would implore Pakistani cricketers. Which was never a friendly thing to say and that entire sentence backfired on him itself. Gambhir left him knocked you at 75 showing that India is way more than petty moves.
