• Cricket fraternity reacts on umpiring blunder during RCB vs SRH game on Saturday.

  • SRH defeated RCB by five wickets to climb to the fourth spot in the points table.

IPL 2020: Harbhajan, Yuvraj, Neesham, Archer & others shocked by an umpiring blunder during RCB vs SRH clash
Yuvraj, Harbhajan react on umpiring error

An umpiring howler during the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) match in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 on Saturday became a massive talking point on social media. Several fans, along with some former and current cricketers raised eyebrows on the ‘no-ball’ error.

The incident took place in the 10th over of SRH innings bowled by Isuru Udana. On the third delivery of the over, Udana bowled a high full toss to Kane Williamson and ideally, it should have been called a ‘no-ball’ as it was above waist height, but the square leg umpire wasn’t convinced.

Even the commentators were left surprised by the umpiring blunder. Kumar Sangakkara, who was on air during that over, expressed shock and said, “I’m not sure whether the rule has changed, that’s above waist height.”

Williamson went to the umpire and asked him why wasn’t it called a ‘no-ball’ and was clearly not happy with the response as he was seen shaking his head in disappointment.

Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh uploaded a short clip of the video and took a dig at the decision made by the on-field umpire. He wrote: “No this isn’t a no-ball.@IPL”.

Yuvraj Singh, Jimmy Neesham, Jofra Archer reacted on the umpiring error

Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh was also amazed ܫthat it was given a no-ball as he too joined the bandwagon 🤡in criticising the umpire.

“I honestly can’t believe that was not given a no-ball! Like seriously !!!” tweeted Yuvraj.

Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) all-rounder Jimmy Neesham, who is known for his epic responses on Twitter, didn’t waste time to drop his thoughts on the red-hot topic. The Kiwi cricketer fired some shots by asking whether no-balls are head high now.

“No balls are head high now???” Neesham tweeted.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) pacer Jofra Archer reacted on the decision by simply writing: “No ball???” on the micro-blogging website.

In the match, SRH defeated RCB by five wickets and kept their hopes alive to qualify for the playoꩵffs.

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