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The Edgbaston Test between India and England has seen a consecutive exciting game. Both teams saw continuous ups and downs in the first innings of this match. Nevertheless, in the first 3 days of the Test, Team India strengthened their grip on the hosts. The effect of this also started appearing on England captain Ben Stokes, who slowly started losing their temper. Stokes, who complained to Ravindra Jadeja on the second day of the match, started arguing with the umpire on the third day. This happened because during the second innings of Team India, the umpire supported Indian batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal in the case of DRS.
Let’s explain in detail what the whole matter is. In the last session of the third day, Team India settled England’s first innings for 407 runs. After this, the Indian team started batting in their second innings, where it had already got a lead of 180 runs. To make this edge even bigger, the opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul started in positive style and rained the boundary. India’s 50 runs were also completed by the 8th over.
There was a ruckus on this matter, Stokes argued
In the 8th over, England’s Pacer Josh Tung came, whose appeal was made against Jaiswal on the fourth ball. The umpire called it out without any hassle. In such a situation, Jaiswal immediately reached Rahul and started discussing whether he should seek the help of DRS or not. Eventually both of them agreed and they indicated DRS. But before his gesture, the 15 -second deadline was over. Even 1 second was an extra time when Jaiswal appealed. But still the umpire accepted it and sent the case to the third umpire.
Just the same thing the England captain did not like it. Stokes directly went to the umpire, speaking ‘no-no’ directly and argued that Jaiswal appealed after the completion of 15 seconds. Stokes argued that DRS cannot be taken after completion of the deadline. According to the rules, the argument of Stokes was perfect but here he forgot an important aspect. In fact, under the DRS rules, the umpire is exempted that he can accept or deny the appeal of DRS to be done after a delay of one-half second. This was not the first time that such an appeal of a player or team has been accepted.
England only benefited
Eventually the umpire explained to Stokes and then after discussing with another umpire, sent Jaiswal’s appeal to the third umpire. In the end, England benefited because the third umpire also upheld the decision of the field umpire. The replay clearly showed that 3 red lights were burnt against Jaiswal. That is, not only he was out, but India also lost a review. It is a different matter that if the decision in the review was reversed and Jaiswal was given not out, then it would have become the biggest controversy of this match. In such a situation, the umpire must have breathed a sigh of relief.
