On this day i.e. February 19, 1999, an important test match was played between India and Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. During this test match, Sachin Tendulkar was run out, after which a riot broke out in Eden Garden and a lot of controversy was also seen due to it.

There was no incident during the first three days of play of this Test match because the performance of the Indian team was very good in these three days and it seemed that it would easily win this Test. At one time, Pakistan team had lost six wickets for 26 runs, after which Moin Khan played a valuable inning of 70 runs for his team, due to which Pakistan scored 185 runs in its first innings.

In reply, India scored 223 runs in its first innings and took a lead of 38 runs over Pakistan. Opener S. Ramesh played a brilliant inning of 79 runs in the first innings. However, the Indian spectators were quite disappointed that Sachin Tendulkar was out without opening the account on the first ball of this match. He was bowled by Shoaib Akhtar. In Pakistan’s second innings, Saeed Anwar batted very well and played an incredible inning of 188* runs, due to which Pakistan made a total of 316 runs.

Mohammad Yusuf also contributed 56 runs. However, the Indian spectators who came to watch the match in the stadium got very angry when the Indian team came out to chase this target. The openers had a very good start but after that the Indian team lost two wickets in two consecutive balls. Apart from these two wickets, Sachin Tendulkar also got run out in the second innings, after which the fans of Kolkata became furious.

Sachin Tendulkar run out in the second innings

Sachin Tendulkar was batting on seven runs when he ran to take two runs off Wasim Akram’s ball. He completed two runs comfortably after which Sachin Tendulkar wanted to take the third run. However, while trying to take the third run, Sachin Tendulkar fought with Shoaib Akhtar and fell on the field. In this time, Nadeem Khan made a direct throw on the wicket and Sachin Tendulkar was run out.

Field umpire Steve Bucknor sent this decision to third umpire KT Francis who gave him runout after a long time. The Kolkata audience lost their cool after this and started criticizing it. Not only this, the match remained stopped for 3 hours. Tee time on the fourth day of play also ended early and the police started trying to calm the situation.

Let us tell you, stones were also thrown on the field by Indian fans and newspapers were also burnt. Not only this, he also started abusing and abusing, after which the police had to evict all the spectators from the field and then the match started.