Brendon McCullum destroyed spirit of the game 3 occasions just like Alex Carey Ashes 2023
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If it is wrong to stump a batsman who is having a casual chat with his partner after the over, how much more is it to run him out when a player is celebrating his partner’s fifty? New Zealand toured Zimbabwe in 2005, which included a two-Test series. When Zimbabwe came out to bat in the second innings in the second Test, it was trailing by 254 runs. In no time, the score became 185/9 in the 60th over. In the 61st over, Blessing Mahwire scored 21 runs and reached 49 runs in just 33 balls.
He had the strike on the first ball of Daniel Vettori’s next over and brought up his half-century with a single shot to mid-wicket. They started celebrating at the other end and there was celebration in the dressing room as well. At this, his teammate and Zimbabwe’s number 11 Chris Mpofu wanted to join in the celebrations and walked towards him after completing the run. Meanwhile, Vettori picked up the ball and threw it towards McCullum, who blew the bails. Mpofu looked stunned and the dressing room celebration soon turned into pack-up mode. Zimbabwe lost the match by an innings and 46 runs and lost the series by a margin of 2–0. Interestingly, in the last Test, which New Zealand won by an innings and 294 runs, McCullum had Ampofu stumped off Vettori in both innings.
2. Running out Muttiah Muralitharan in 2006
McCullum did it again a year later. In the first innings of a two-match Test tour of New Zealand in Christchurch in 2006, Sri Lanka fell behind by 52 runs in the second innings. Kumar Sangakkara scored a brilliant century in 154 balls to take Sri Lanka from 99/8 to 170/9. But the shot that took him to his century also saw a wicket fall on the same ball. In fact, even as Sangakkara was raising his bat in celebration, non-striker Muttiah Muralitharan walked over to his partner to congratulate him after he had lofted his bat inside the crease at the other end. On this, McCullum received the ball from the deep and blew the bails.
New Zealand won the Test by five wickets but the visitors leveled the series at 1–1. Both run-outs were under the Laws of the Game (as the ball was not dead), but it was also true that neither batsman wanted to take a run. Yet, there was hardly any debate on the ‘spirit of cricket’ at the time. One can imagine what an uproar it would have been if someone had done this today when the opposition batsman was celebrating a century.
3. Brendon McCullum stumping England assistant Paul Collingwood in 2009, but…
A similar incident happened during the 2009 Champions Trophy. In the 10th match of the league stage, England batted first and on the last ball of the 11th over, Paul Collingwood singled a short ball outside off stump from Kyle Mills and went to have a chat with his partner. Almost like Carey, McCullum bowled at the stumps and got stumped.
However, then-captain Vettori withdrew his appeal after much debate and shook hands with Collingwood. However, here McCullum said that what he did was right. Collingwood was then on 14 off 24 balls and top-scored with 40 (58). England were bowled out for 146, while New Zealand reached the target in 27.1 overs riding on McCullum’s 48 (39). Now, Collingwood is McCullum’s assistant coach in England.
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