Gill, nevertheless, stated he has his doubts in regards to the dismissal. “As a non-striker batsman, I didn’t think that the ball hit the stumps, even when I was watching the replay. Sometimes there’s a blind spot — you can’t really tell what happened,” he stated on the post-match briefing on Wednesday night time.
“I thought with the bail falling towards the crease, it’s a bit weird if the ball is hitting like that and the bail falling towards the crease instead of the other side. These bails are different. It’s a heavy bail and the stumps are a bit different. But, at the end of the day, you have to go with the third umpire and respect his decision,” he added.
The dismissal occurred within the fortieth over of India’s innings, when Hardik tried to chop a supply by means of the third man however noticed his off-stump bail being dislodged because the ball handed extraordinarily near the stumps and the on-field umpires referred the decision to the TV umpire Ok Ananthapadmanabhan.
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Replays confirmed that wicketkeeper and New Zealand skipper Tom Latham was standing as much as the stumps. He additionally had his gloves very near the bails, which appeared to mild up simply after the ball had handed excessive of the stumps and was cleanly collected by the keeper.
Viewing a collection of replays, the TV umpire tried to test whether or not Latham’s gloves had been behind the stumps earlier than he collected the ball, which was the case, so it was a authorized supply. He was ultimately glad that there was no conclusive proof that the bail had been dislodged by the wicketkeeper’s gloves, which left many dissatisfied.