Rajasthan Royals (RR) sealed a thrilling win over Punjab Kings (PBKS) the 3𒁏2nd match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at the Dubai Intern⭕ational Stadium on Tuesday.
After put in to bat, Rajasthan openers Evin Lewis and Yashasvi Jaiswal gave their side a brilliant start, smashing 36 and 49 runs res🤪pectively.
Middle-order batter Mahipal Lomror also scored 43 runs, guiding RR to a competitive total of 🔜185.
Chasing 186 for victory, Punjab made a flying start with Mayank Agarwal slamming a 43-ball 67. KXIP captain KL Rahul 𒅌departed just one run before his half-century in the 12th over.
Hoping to seal a win, Punjab faltered in the 20th over, with RR pacer Kartik Tyagi dismissing well set Nicholas Pooran and new-comer Deepak Hooda. A superb final over by young𝄹 Tyagi saw RR record their fou🐬rth win on the season.
Third umpire ignored 2 no-balls bowled by RR seamer Mustafizur Rahman
In the penultimate over of RR innings, TV commentators Aakash Chopra and Irfan Pathan highlighted the incident of Mustafizur Rahman bowling two no-balls which were ignored by the third umpire. The umpiring howler made a great impact on the game’s result as Punjab lost the contest by two runs.
no ball controversy.
Over:- 19.1 (speed ×.5)
Look at the toe and the heel at 1s༺t point of 🌳contact.— ℬℴ𝓃𝓎 ℬ𝒾𝓈𝓌𝒶𝓈 (@4mBAD)
Bo💧th Irfan and Aakash expresse𒊎d their disappointment on Twitter as well.
//twitter.com/IrfanPathan/status/144037𒆙6897586663426
On the othไer hand, Chopra raised concerns regarding the technol🌺ogy used in cricket after those two no-balls got unnoticed by the TV umpire.
Two no-balls missed. In the Mu♚stafizur over. And has lost the game by two runs🦋. What good is technology if that doesn’t allow you to rectify a glaring error?
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
I’ve seen this many times over now. I still can’t say with certainty that at the point of first contact, Fizz’s foot isn’t touching the return crease. Brings forth 2 points
1. Was it checked enough times by the 3rd umpire to𝔍 remove doubt? Happened on two c꧒onsecutive balls. 1/2— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
2. Does the third umpire get to see this on reviews? Because he starts by saying fair delivery but isn’t he getting just the popping crease visuals in real-time (by which he determines that the bowler hasn’t overstepped). I don’t have concrete answers to thesejust in🍰trigued 2/2
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Here’s how fans reacted to Rahman’s two no-balls (which were ignored by the umpire):
Mustafizur balled 2 no balls in the 19th over umpire didn't noticed
.. c𓆉ost the game to kxip still if you🐼 are thinking there is no fixing in IPL then 🤷🏻♂️🙌🏻🙏🏻— Dr.Paritosh chavda (@official_pc_44)
//twitter.com/technical_bacha/status/1440378972223598🐲607
That 3rd umpire must be having a good time there! Must be sleeping han?
He missed 2 n🔴o balls in over of Mustafizur Rahman and Punjab Kin🐓gs lost the match by exactly 2 runs! Aag laga do ap apni technology me.— Shivani Shukla (@iShivani_Shukla)
what about 2 no balls bowled by mustafizur Rah🔴man in 19th over totally scam and bulshit
— Gurjit Singh (@GurjitS04381134)
