Pakistan’s Muneeba Ali being run out by Indian staff throughout their ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025 match towards India on the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on October 5, 2025. – Screengrab/X
Followers slammed India after Pakistan’s Muneeba Ali was run out in controversial style throughout their ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025 match in Colombo on Sunday.
Bowling first, Pakistan dismissed India for 247 — the primary time they’ve bowled out the aspect in a one-day worldwide.
Chasing 248, Muneeba opened the innings alongside Sadaf Shamas.
Nevertheless, Pakistan suffered an early blow within the high-stakes sport when the opening batter fell to a controversial run out.
The incident befell on the ultimate supply of the fourth over when Kranti Goud trapped Muneeba in entrance of the wicket on a fuller supply.
The on-field umpire turned down the Indian gamers’ attraction for an LBW.
In the meantime, Deepti Sharma threw the ball on the stumps and dislodged the bails because the Pakistani batter was wanting in direction of the non-striker’s finish.
Whereas Muneeba had grounded her bat after dealing with the supply, replays confirmed that she lifted it simply when the ball hit the stumps.
Subsequently, umpires gave Muneeba run out, leaving her and Pakistan captain Fatima Sana questioning the controversial resolution.
In keeping with Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) rules, a batter is asserted run out if, at any time whereas the ball is in play, they’re out of the crease and the wicket is pretty damaged by a fielder, no matter whether or not a run was being tried.
The Indian staff’s actions on the sector and the umpire’s resolution, nevertheless, didn’t sit properly with the followers, who expressed a variety of feelings on social media.
“India did not show any sportsmanship and ran Muneeba Ali out. This is ugly for the game of cricket,” a fan wrote in a submit on X.
One other accused the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) of rigging the sport.
“Muneeba Ali was initially given not out because she had placed her bat behind the crease but after some time, the umpire gave her out. This is really poor. [BCCI] even ragging a women’s game,” the fan wrote.
