Rohit Sharma’s dubious dismissal raised a lot of eyebrows yesterday in the match against West Indies. Now Sharma himself tweeted photos of the same dismissal. These images are pretty clear to justify the controversy.
Rohit Sharma Dismissal Controversy
Rohit Sharma was sent back by Kemar Roach with India on 29/1 in the 6th over. A good length delivery by Roach went past Sharma’s bat and the Windies appealed for caught behind. The on-field umpire wasn’t convinced and turned over the appeal. Holder then went for review the third umpire declared Sharma out. The replay suggested that Rohit got an inside edge initially but it was nothing conclusive. The Snickometer showed some movement but a benefit of doubt could have been gone in batsman’s favour.
Rohit Sharma Tweeted
Rohit Sharma was in disbelief and the cricket fraternity was divided into two parts regarding the decision. Now it looks like Sharma is still not convinced and his tweet is proof to that. He tweeted two photos of the same dismissal from two different angles. The images suggest that there was a gap between the bat and pad. The considerable gap suggests that he was not out. Rohit was clever enough to post the images without saying anything further. He just shared them with a facepalm emoji.
🤦♂️👀 pic.twitter.com/0RH6VeU6YB
— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) June 28, 2019
Expectedly the tweet has gone viral and once again social media have started to talk about the same.
The Role
Nothing can be changed at this moment. But in such crucial matches, umpires need to be careful. The role of umpires has been the talk of the cricket circuit for quite a sometime now. With so much technology around, the umpires are expected to take the right call. Especially tv umpires have more responsibility in such cases. The third umpire generally takes a lot of time to take a final call which wasn’t the scenario yesterday.
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