‘Madness’: All 10 batters retire in cricket scorecard chaos

There has been “proper madness” in a cricket world cup qualifier with one team having all 10 batters retire in extraordinary fashion.

The cricket world has been left in disbelief after watching the United Arab Emirates (UAE) retire all 10 batters in a crazy Women’s T20 World Cup qualifier.

Saturday’s Asia qualifier produced scenes of “proper madness” as the UAE deployed a deliberate tactic of retiring all of their batters in order to complete their innings as quickly as possible.

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UAE openers Esha Oza and Theertha Satish had smashed their way to 0/192 in 16 overs when the team made the call to speed up their innings in order to try and wrap the game up before rain was expected to hit the TerdThai Cricket Ground in Bangkok, Thailand.

There were extraordinary scenes as UAE’s batters lined up in procession on the boundary rope to retire their innings without facing a delivery.

The batters were lined up like a procession, Photo: X and ICC, @PaulRadley.

There are no declarations in international T20 cricket, so retiring all their batters was the quickest option available to coach Ahmed Raza.

Leading cricket scribe Paul Radley described the scenes as “proper madness”.

Understandably, he also described the innings scorecard as “crazy”.

In reply, Qatar survived just 11.1 and were knocked over for 29 runs, giving the UAE a 163-run victory.

The UAE had plenty to celebrate. Photo: X and EmiratesCricket.

Only three Qatari batters were able to score runs with seven ducks recorded on their innings.

With the UAE retirements counting as ducks, there were a history-shattering 15 ducks in the game.

The UAE’s innings was the first instance of a team retiring more than two batters in a men’s or women’s international match.

Captain Oza was the player of the match after striking 113 from 55 balls and also picking up a wicket.

UAE players barely had time to celebrate. Photo: ICC, YouTube.

Satish also hit 74 from 42 balls before the retirements began.

It was Michelle Botha who did the damage with the ball for the UAE, taking three wickets for just 11 runs.

It was the UAE’s second consecutive victory at the Asia Qualifier event and puts them in the box seat to progress to the Super Three stage of the event as the top team in Group B.

The top two teams will progress to the Global Qualifier.

The UAE next play against Malaysia on May 13 and they will play Qatar again on May 15.

Originally published as ‘Madness’: All 10 batters retire in cricket scorecard chaos