MUMBAI: Rishabh Pant dragged himself off the ground after New Zealand successfully used DRS to overturn the on-field decision, seeing the back of the India batter who was running away with the match.
The game-changing moment came at 21.4 overs into India's innings when third umpire Paul Reiffel went through multiple replays before deciding that the ball took an inside edge before hitting the pad and lobbing into ’keeper Tom Blundell’s gloves, giving Pant the marching orders. Pant, with his knock of 64, dug the hosts out of trouble from 29 for five, and India was just 41 runs away from the target of 147. Pant tried to reason with on-field umpires Richard Illingworth and Michael Gough, but to no avail.
Skipper Rohit Sharma felt that India was hard done by as Rishabh was bringing the game home. “If we say something, it is not accepted well. But if there is no conclusive evidence, it has to stand with the umpire’s on-field decision. That is what I was told. The bat was clearly close to the pad. It is something for the umpires to think about. Have the same rules for every team, and not keep changing their mind. Rishabh was looking good at that point, and it felt like he would take us through,” said Rohit.
New Zealand skipper Tom Latham said that Pant was clearly out, and that’s why they decided to review it despite it being their last one. “The footage that the third umpire gets, that’s certainly out of our control in terms of what that may look like, but we obviously heard a couple of noises and decided to take the review, and it fell on the right side for us, so that’s obviously up to the umpires. It’s out of our control,” said Latham.
The game-changing moment came at 21.4 overs into India's innings when third umpire Paul Reiffel went through multiple replays before deciding that the ball took an inside edge before hitting the pad and lobbing into ’keeper Tom Blundell’s gloves, giving Pant the marching orders. Pant, with his knock of 64, dug the hosts out of trouble from 29 for five, and India was just 41 runs away from the target of 147. Pant tried to reason with on-field umpires Richard Illingworth and Michael Gough, but to no avail.
Skipper Rohit Sharma felt that India was hard done by as Rishabh was bringing the game home. “If we say something, it is not accepted well. But if there is no conclusive evidence, it has to stand with the umpire’s on-field decision. That is what I was told. The bat was clearly close to the pad. It is something for the umpires to think about. Have the same rules for every team, and not keep changing their mind. Rishabh was looking good at that point, and it felt like he would take us through,” said Rohit.
New Zealand skipper Tom Latham said that Pant was clearly out, and that’s why they decided to review it despite it being their last one. “The footage that the third umpire gets, that’s certainly out of our control in terms of what that may look like, but we obviously heard a couple of noises and decided to take the review, and it fell on the right side for us, so that’s obviously up to the umpires. It’s out of our control,” said Latham.
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