Ishan Kishan does a Tom Latham after Hardik’s freak dismissal | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: After India all-rounder Hardik Pandya‘s bizarre dismissal left players and fans stunned in the first ODI on Wednesday, wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan tried to give Kiwis the taste of their own medicine.
Questions were raised in the manner Pandya was given out by third umpire KN Ananthapadmanabhan. The incident happened in the 40th over of the Indian innings when Pandya tried to cut an incoming angular delivery from Kiwi all-rounder Daryl Mitchell, but missed it completely.

The bails came off and Mitchell and his teammates celebrated, thinking he had bowled Hardik. But then Kiwi captain and wicket-keeper Tom Latham asked for the umpires to review it because he felt he might have nicked the bails with his gloves.
The third umpire asked for multiple replays and even checked UltraEdge to see if the ball had grazed Hardik’s bat. In the split-screen images that were shown to him by the TV crew, it was clearly visible that the ball didn’t seem to have grazed the off stump at all. And that the bails lit up and fell after the ball had been collected by Latham who was standing up to the stumps.

Hardik’s teammates too were not pleased with the call and when Latham got into the middle with New Zealand chasing 350, his habit of keeping his hands behind the wicket, dangerously close to the stumps was imitated by India keeper Ishan Kishan.
The Indians appealed for a stumping on the first ball Latham faced off off-spinner Kuldeep Yadav as Kishan took the bails off in jest.
Latham was very much in the crease but Kishan went ahead with the appeal and that did not go down well with former India captain Sunil Gavaskar.
“Taking the bails off was fine but he should not have appealed,” said Gavaskar on air.
Like Kishan, Latham too was amused by the incident.
(With PTI Inputs)