#shoe throwing

[tilbageidanmark]

The George W Bush Shoe Thrown Memorial Gold Ring

[shadow-of-the-sapphic]

[savvygunner]

Happy anniversary

[victusinveritas]

[the-glory-of-faf]

Faf is unimpressed after a shoe was thrown at him by a member of the Chennai crowd to protest a local water dispute while carrying drinks for the team.

Tuesday (April 10) night’s game against Kolkata Knight Riders itself was under threat, with many political parties and fringe outfits in Tamil Nadu calling for a ban to highlight the farmer-crisis and pressurise the central government to form the Cauvery Management Board in line with the Supreme Court of India’s orders. The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the IPL Governing Council, however, did not give in to such demands and made clear their intentions to host the games in Chennai. (Wisden India)

To avoid the violence, the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association have already issued instructions that spectators are not allowed to bring mobile phones, bags, jholas, brief-cases, pagers, radios, digital diaries, laptops, computers, tape-recorders, binoculars, remote control devices, remote control car-keys or any other electronic devices, musical instruments, video cameras, digital cameras. Any firearms, crackers, bottles, mirrors, glasses, razors, scissors, mirrors and glasses, knives, and any gadget having dry cell battery, button cell battery are also not allowed. (India.com).

Update: Faf and Jadeja were picking up shoes that had been thrown to the ground around them, and the shoes were probably not aimed at the players. Faf reportedly picked up the shoe, threw it back and then smiled to the crowd. A report with details of the protest is at cricket.com.au.

[hindbodes]

Noteworthy: Slightly better timeline where George W. Bush can't dodge.

[rootbeer666]

🎉 fifteen years! 🥂

[howtophil]

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