The match between Leeward Islands and Kent has come under huge criticism after the home side exhibited unsportsmanlike behaviour to deny 20-year-old Crawley a century after the match was well beyond their reach. In what looked like a series of calculated incidents, the whole team looked to conspire in order to restrict the batsman’s from reaching his first List A ton.

He chose to block the next ball down the pitch, but couldn’t do that on the fourth ball as he had to turn the leg-side delivery out through the midwicket. Knowing that match was over and a chance of his century now gone, Crawley decided to jog down the pitch to finish the single, but Dickson waved him to stay back. However, the Leeward fielder wasn’t having any of it and chose not to intercept the ball and let it roll to the boundary. 

"99 not out for Zak Crawley and then nice bloke Marlon Samuels got his bowlers to bowl wides so he couldn't get 100," Key wrote in a tweet that he tweeted after the game.

West Indian players, however, have come to the fore time and again for such incidents. During last year’s Caribbean Premier League, Evin Lewis was denied a hundred for St Kitts and Nevis against Barbados, as Kieron Pollard decided to bowl a no-ball with the scores level. However, the Mumbai Indians star later denied the incident.