Ranji Trophy final | A headbutt, an apology, and an all is well: the events that transpired between Dogra and Aneesh

One of the defining images of the 2006 FIFA World Cup was that of French skipper Zinedine Zidane headbutting Italian Marco Materazzi successful the last successful Berlin.

A mediocre man’s mentation of the aforesaid played retired connected Wednesday successful the Ranji Trophy last present erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir skipper Paras Dogra clashed with Karnataka’s K.V. Aneesh. Zidane’s enactment was earthy and savage. Dogra’s, coming arsenic it did successful the ‘gentlemen’s game’, lone progressive a not-so-forceful, helmet-to-helmet touch.

Zidane was handed a three-match prohibition and was asked to walk 3 days doing assemblage service. Dogra, astatine the most, volition bull a hefty fine.

Cricket has seen a just stock of enarthrosis barges – determination was 1 betwixt Kanhaiya Wadhawan and V. Vyshak excessively connected Wednesday – and look downs. But a headbutt is arsenic scarce arsenic a hen’s teeth.

The incidental occurred successful the 14th implicit of the greeting erstwhile Dogra got a streaky bound past gully aft awkwardly fending disconnected a short-pitched transportation from Prasidh Krishna. Something that substitute Aneesh uttered from silly-point appeared to person irked Dogra, and the burly antheral went charging astatine the Karnataka player, who is 16 years and 8 months his junior.

Mayank Agarwal, 35 and until precocious the Karnataka skipper, stepped successful and seemingly warned Dogra that a headbutt had nary spot successful cricket.

The umpires past spoke some to Dogra and the location skipper Devdutt Padikkal to defuse the tension, and Dogra was adjacent seen putting up his manus apologetically.

There was nary confirmation if the apology was accepted immediately, but some Dogra and Wadhawan said that each was well.

“It was nothing; it conscionable happened successful the vigor of the moment,” Dogra told reporters aft play. “It’s not a large thing. It’s each settled now.”

Big oregon small, it was surely rarest of rare.