Top 10 Cricket fights of all time

Javed Miandad and Dennis Lillee during the infamous onfield brawl

Despite carrying the tag of being a gentleman’s game cricket has seen its fair share of controversies in its history. Moreover, when two teams are battling it out in competitive sports, tempers are bound to rise and circumstances and testosterone together can cause an angry skirmish. Though cricket in the olden days involved very few arguments and disagreements, the modern game has had its fair share of ill-tempered fights.

Over the years we have witnessed some intense fights between cricketers from either team and sometimes it has reached a level when the officials had to come and intervene to bring the situation under normalcy. Though the intensity in the game and aggression have increased but the term sledging has been used since time immemorial. The Australians were popular in that art but in the current generation, most of the teams with their young brigade are not scared to take on their oppositions in verbal duels.

Here we bring you 10 biggest on-field brawls of all time

#10 Javed Miandad vs Dennis Lillee

Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad were terrific players for their respective countries during the 1980s but both had that tendency to indulge in controversies and attract newspaper headlines. Australia and Pakistan met each other in 1981-82 down under and the two were involved in one of the ugliest on-field fights in cricket history.

Pakistan was staring down the barrel in the 1st Test at Perth when Javed Miandad came in to bat in the 2nd innings. A fired up Lillee aided by an insistent crowd were giving Javed Miandad and Mansoor Akhtar a torrid time but the duo held fort. With a decent partnership building, an ugly onfield brawl took place between Lillee and Miandad.

While completing a single Miandad collided with Lillee but footage clearly suggested that Lille was the one at fault blocking Miandad’s way. Lillee then came and tried to kick Miandad and the Pakistani almost threw back the bat at Lillee. Umpires had to intervene and control the tension.