2011 Cricket World Cup - Incidents

Incidents

• Bangladeshi fans threw rocks at the West Indies team bus as it returned players to their hotel after their win over Bangladesh in Dhaka on 4 March. It was later claimed that the rock-throwers had confused the bus with the Bangladesh team bus. The elite Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh arrested 38 people after the attack, and the West Indians later received an apology.
• On 8 March, fans who lined up outside the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur to buy tickets for the match between India and South Africa were caned by local police.
• The political party Shiv Sena threatened to disrupt the final in Mumbai if the team from Pakistan qualified to play.
• The Umpire Decision Review System came under scrutiny when Indian captain M.S. Dhoni complained after a little-known 2.5-metre rule was applied in the appeal against dismissal of Ian Bell for leg before wicket during the India–England group-stage match, which eventually ended in a tie. The rules were subsequently revised and the umpires were given new guidelines. The captain of Sri Lanka, Kumar Sangakkara, later criticised the decision to alter the 2.5-metre rule while a tournament was in progress.
• In the final between India and Sri Lanka, loud crowd noise prevented match referee Jeff Crowe from hearing Sri Lankan captain Sangakkara's call as the coin was tossed by Indian captain Dhoni. The toss had to be redone – an extremely unusual event, especially at as prominent an event as the World Cup final.