AUS vs IND, 4th Test: Rohit, Cummins put controversy around Jaiswal’s dismissal to bed after game
AUS vs IND, 4th Test: Rohit, Cummins put controversy around Jaiswal’s dismissal to bed after game
The fourth Test’s final hour was a distillation of the very best of cricket’s longest format. In that session of joy and trauma, Yashasvi Jaiswal’s dismissal triggered a debate.
Having attempted to pull a bouncer from Pat Cummins, the ensuing visuals were of the Indian opener’s swivelling bat and the Australians going up in appeal for a caught behind. Staring at a negative verdict, they sought a review and third umpire Saikat went by the visual evidence of a deflection and adjudged the batter out while the snickometer remained silent.
A majority of the audience, clad in the blue shade, were aghast at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and cries of ‘cheating, cheating’ rang out aloud. Once the game ended with Cummins and his men finishing on the winning side, both the Australian skipper and his rival counterpart Rohit Sharma put a lid on the simmering controversy.
Speaking to the media, Rohit said, “Look, really I don’t know what to make of that because the technology didn’t show anything. But with the naked eye, it seemed that he did touch something.
“I don’t know how the umpires want to use the technology. But in all fairness, I think it (bat) did touch the ball but again look, it’s about the technology which we all know is not 100 per cent. We don’t want to really look too much into that. Just that more often than not, we are the ones falling on the wrong side.”
Later, Cummins explained, “Oh look I think it was just clear that he hit it, (we) heard a noise, saw a deviation, so it was absolutely certain that he hit it. As soon as we referred it you could see him drop his head and basically acknowledge that he hit it.
On the screen, you can see he hit it. Ultra-edge, I don’t think anyone has complete confidence in and didn’t really show much but fortunately, there’s enough other evidence to show it was clearly out.”
