Twitter trolls Dharmasena on Sachin Tendulkar's bizzare cricket video

Kumar Dharmasena

While umpiring decisions around the world are under scrutiny in the game of cricket, Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar shared an interesting video on Twitter showing a very unusual instance when the ball bowled by a bowler during a game, beat the batsman and hit the bails. The bails, however, moved but did not dislodge from the stumps. The umpire then comes and puts the bails back in its correct position and waves play on, much to the dismay of the bowler.

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Sachin Tendulkar captioned the video as "A friend shared this video with me. Found it very unusual! What would your decision be if you were the umpire?"

Various Twitter users gave their opinion on whether the decision should have been out or not. Here are some of the most interesting reactions:

Earlier this month, during the World Cup 2019, wrong umpiring decisions by ICC elite umpire Kumar Dharmasena cost New Zealand the trophy.

Luck smiled on England midway through the final over of their innings when a throw from New Zealand fielder Martin Guptill deflected off the bat of Stokes and ran to the boundary. England tied the match and the ensuing Super Over before winning on boundary count.

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Law 19.8 of the ICC rules, pertaining to 'Overthrow or wilful act of fielder', states: "If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be any runs for penalties awarded to either side, and the allowance for the boundary, and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act."

England ended up winning the trophy but it would have been New Zealand's World Cup if Kumar Dharmasena would have awarded 5 runs instead of six.

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