da bwin： Australian captain Steve Waugh carried out his threat to lead his playersoff the field on Tuesday after a fan threw a firework onto the field duringthe Australia-Pakistan Tri-Nations game at Trent Bridge
da dobrowin： AAP20-Jun-2001Australian captain Steve Waugh carried out his threat to lead his playersoff the field on Tuesday after a fan threw a firework onto the field duringthe Australia-Pakistan Tri-Nations game at Trent Bridge.With Pakistan at 250 for six off 45 overs, a number of fireworks went off inthe stands. Supporters scrambled away and stewards and police moved in.But one of the fireworks, which didn’t appear to go off, landed on the fieldclose to fielder Brett Lee and Waugh, who had threatened before the game hewould take his players off the field if there was any further misbehaviourafter Sunday’s crowd invasion at Headingley, led them off.After an 18 minute delay, during the which the Australians agreed to resumeprovided there was no further trouble, the match resumed.The security at Trent Bridge had been beefed to prevent a repeat of Sunday’sscenes at Headingley where stampeding Pakistan fans left a steward withbroken ribs, a broken nose and a damaged spleen.More than 350 stewards were on alert and temporary, plastic fences just hungover the advertising hoardings in case anyone decided to run on the field.The measures have been taken by the local club to avoid a repeat of the twopitch invasions that have marred this 10-match series. After celebratingPakistan fans ran onto the field at Headingley on Sunday and the steward layinjured on the field, England skipper Alec Stewart took the unprecedentedstep of conceding the match to Pakistan to for safety reasons.Steward Stephen Speight, 31, said he had been trying to hold on to thestumps when he was kicked in the face and chest by a group of fans.”My head felt like it had just been kicked around a football field,” Speightsaid.In an emergency the plastic fences will be hoisted by the stewards to stopthe invading spectators and anyone caught running into the field will bearrested, according to the local chief executive David Collier.Thousands of Pakistan fans, who appear to have outnumbered the Australiansupport, made it virtually a home match for their side, sounding horns andcreating the sort of atmosphere that has become a typical Pakistan games inthis series.There had been no trouble until the fireworks went off in the Radcliffe Roadstand housing most of the Pakistan fans. Most of the fans moved away fromthe area where they were going off and some were cowering in their seats.Waugh took his players off while the two Pakistan batsmen, Rashid Latif andAzhar Mahmood, initially stayed out on the field before they also left thefield.
