DRS, the talking point
India skipper Virat Kohli has slammed the Decision Review System (DRS) after India’s caught-behind appeal against Ashton Turner was turned down during the fourth ODI between India and Australia.
Turner scored a scintillating unbeaten 84 off 43 balls to power Australia to their highest-ever successful chase against India, who had put up 358 on board. It was in the 44th over when Turner tried to slash a wide leg-break from spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, and the ball seemed to take the edge of the bat before settling into the gloves of wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
The on-field umpire turned down India’s appeal, and Kohli asked for a review.
The Snickometer showed a spike as the ball passed the bat, but it had shown lighter disturbances even before the ball reached Turner. The third umpire decided that there wasn’t enough evidence to overturn the on-field decision. “The DRS call was a bit of surprise for all of us and it’s becoming more of a talking point in every game. It’s just not consistent at all, that was a game-changing moment,” Kohli said during the post match presentation. “But yeah, that’s more of an uncontrollable, but the controllable we had to do right, and we didn’t do it right, and the opportunity slipped away,” he added.
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