‘At the end of the day, you have to go with the third umpire and respect his decision,’ says Shubman on Hardik’s dismissal | Cricket News

HYDERABAD: India all-rounder Hardik Pandya‘s freak clean bowled dismissal off Daryl Mitchell became a huge talking point even after the match was over. Hardik was adjudged out after he had made 28 off 38 balls, ending a partnership of 74 for the fifth wicket with double centurion Shubman Gill.
Gill, however, said he has his doubts about the dismissal. “As a non-striker batsman, I didn’t think that the ball hit the stumps, even when I was watching the replay. Sometimes there’s a blind spot — you can’t really tell what happened,” he said at the post-match briefing on Wednesday night.

“I thought with the bail falling towards the crease, it’s a bit weird if the ball is hitting like that and the bail falling towards the crease instead of the other side. These bails are different. It’s a heavy bail and the stumps are a bit different. But, at the end of the day, you have to go with the third umpire and respect his decision,” he added.
The dismissal occurred in the 40th over of India’s innings, when Hardik tried to cut a delivery through the third man but saw his off-stump bail being dislodged as the ball passed extremely close to the stumps and the on-field umpires referred the call to the TV umpire K Ananthapadmanabhan.

Replays showed that wicketkeeper and New Zealand skipper Tom Latham was standing up to the stumps. He also had his gloves very close to the bails, which looked to light up just after the ball had passed over the top of the stumps and was cleanly collected by the keeper.
Viewing a series of replays, the TV umpire tried to check whether Latham’s gloves were behind the stumps before he collected the ball, which was the case, so it was a legal delivery. He was eventually satisfied that there was no conclusive evidence that the bail had been dislodged by the wicketkeeper’s gloves, which left many dissatisfied.