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Alzarri Joseph was unhappy with the field setting, and after bowling a wicket maiden, he left the field in anger.
Alzarri Joseph leaves field after heated argument with Shai Hope. (Picture Credit: Screengrab)
Star West Indies pacer Alzarri Joseph lost his cool on Wednesday and was seen leaving the field after getting into a heated exchange with the team’s captain, Shai Hope, over field placement. The incident took place during the third ODI of the bilateral series between the West Indies and England, which was played at Kensington Oval in Barbados. Joseph was not pleased with the field set by Hope for him.
Before the start of the fourth over of the match, Joseph was seen waving his arms at the two slips in place for England No. 3 batter Jordan Cox. He dismissed Cox for one run from six balls on the fourth ball of the over but refused to celebrate the dismissal and instead was seen having a heated verbal exchange with Hope.
After completing his over, in which he picked up one wicket and didn’t concede any run, Joseph left the field, which stunned everyone. The hosts fielded with only 10 men for an over, but then when substitute Hayden Walsh Jr. was seen removing his bib to take the field, Joseph walked down to the dugout before joining the side at the end of the next over.
Former England batter Mark Butcher, who was doing commentary when the incident took place, slammed Joseph’s behaviour.
“Many is the time, as a captain or as a player, that you have a disagreement about something on the field. But you work that out either behind closed doors or you get on with your job. Your captain asks you to bowl to a field; you bowl to it,” Butcher was heard saying.
Joseph finished the match with figures of 2 for 45 in 10 overs.
WI won by 8 wickets
In the series decider, Hope invited England to bat first, and riding on Phil Salt’s 74 off 108 balls and Dan Mousley’s 57, the visitors posted a total of 263 runs on the board for the loss of eight wickets in 50 overs. However, the 264-run target didn’t prove to be enough, and the hosts rode on twin centuries from Brandon King (102) and Keacy Carty (128*) to chase it down in 43 overs for the loss of just two wickets.
