{"id":61978,"date":"2025-04-30T04:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61978\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:14:11","slug":"aussie-cricket-great-lashes-out-after-brutal-brawl-at-multicultural-match-that-was-supposed-to-promote-diversity-sees-players-banned-for-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61978\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie cricket great lashes out after brutal brawl at multicultural match that was supposed to promote diversity sees players banned for 13 YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Brawl in Thunder Nation Cup last year in Sydney&#8217;s west<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Former Test star Trent Copeland said bans sent a message<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-145\/andrew-prentice.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANDREW PRENTICE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  21:07 EDT, 29 April 2025   |  Updated:  21:15 EDT, 29 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former Australian Test cricketer Trent Copeland has lashed out at a number of players involved in a brawl during a multicultural competition in Sydney&#8217;s west after they were hit with staggering bans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Athlete turned sports administrator Copeland is the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/sydney\/index.html\" id=\"mol-339d1050-2553-11f0-8ba1-09e30cdc0901\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney<\/a> Thunder general manager &#8211; and the Big Bash franchise have staged the Thunder Nation Cup for the past 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Whether it continues in the same format remains to be seen following wild scenes in a semi-final last year between teams representing\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/india-cricket\/index.html\" id=\"mol-33add930-2553-11f0-8ba1-09e30cdc0901\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>\u00a0and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Punches were exchanged on field &#8211; and reportedly off the field as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Following the chaotic scenes, the match was abandoned and both teams were disqualified from the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Indian players Arun Chauhan and Goldy Kotia and Afghani player Hilal Tawakal were all banned by Cricket <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new-south-wales\/index.html\" id=\"mol-339c25f0-2553-11f0-8ba1-09e30cdc0901\" rel=\"noopener\">NSW<\/a>\u00a0integrity for 42 months each.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4feb23fccb4584c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97846129-14661807-image-m-13_1745970281647.jpg\" height=\"788\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Former Australian Test cricketer Trent Copeland has lashed out at players involved in a brawl during a multicultural tournament in Sydney's west which promotes diversity\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Former Australian Test cricketer Trent Copeland has lashed out at players involved in a brawl during a multicultural tournament in Sydney&#8217;s west which promotes diversity<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3910f3e4e8a29134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97846123-14661807-image-m-15_1745970315300.jpg\" height=\"622\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Arun Chauhan (right) represented India in the\u00a0Thunder Nation Cup - and was issued a 42 month ban for his role in the brawl last year in a match against\u00a0Afghanistan\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Arun Chauhan (right) represented India in the\u00a0Thunder Nation Cup &#8211; and was issued a 42 month ban for his role in the brawl last year in a match against\u00a0Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-523c2b52091ea0b5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97846121-14661807-image-m-17_1745970410091.jpg\" height=\"935\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Following the chaotic scenes, the match was abandoned and both teams were disqualified from the competition (Arun Chauhan is pictured right, with Aussie cricket star David Warner)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Following the chaotic scenes, the match was abandoned and both teams were disqualified from the competition (Arun Chauhan is pictured right, with Aussie cricket star David Warner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Amanjyot Singh and Mohan Pannu &#8211; both from the Indian XI &#8211; received suspensions of 12 and 18 months respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Copeland made no apologies for the heavy bans, which totalled 13 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The significance of the sanctions is the message. If you look at those you will understand how seriously we take improper conduct,\u00a0Copeland told <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/vicious-local-cricket-brawl-triggers-stunning-bans-totalling-13-years-for-members-of-thunder-nation-cup\/news-story\/568a3743af5cb8c78ef45b557cc81ce2\">News Corp.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Cricket is a safe space and we just don&#8217;t stand for anything like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The purpose of Thunder Nation Cup is to create a fostering environment for people who don&#8217;t have English as their first spoken language or have just migrated to Australia and are finding a place or connection with other people through cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;ve never seen suspensions to this degree. But there&#8217;s a streamlined (integrity) process and it&#8217;s quite obvious this is where it needed to land.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Copeland also confirmed a review will be conducted into the format of the popular park cricket competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sri Lanka player Vinushan Joseph wants to see the competition continue, adamant it brings &#8216;competing nations together.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Mr Chauhan for comment.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Aussie cricket great lashes out after brutal brawl at multicultural match that was supposed to promote diversity sees players banned for 13 YEARS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brawl in Thunder Nation Cup last year in Sydney&#8217;s west Former Test star Trent Copeland said bans sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[2881,1406,92,730,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-61978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}