Rohit Sharma, India captain, reacted to Yashasvi Jaiswal’s controversial dismissal on day 5 of the recent MCG Test. India lost the Test by 184 runs and are now 2-1 down in the five-Test series.
Jaiswal, who scored 84 runs and added 88 runs with Rishabh Pant, was given out caught behind despite snicko showing no spike.
On Day 5 of the Melbourne Test, with India down seven wickets, Jaiswal attempted a hook shot off Pat Cummins' delivery. Replays revealed that the ball appeared to have brushed Jaiswal's gloves before reaching wicketkeeper Alex Carey.
Snicko provided no conclusive evidence for the third umpire to overturn the on-field decision of 'not out'. However, the official looked at the side-on view and determined that Jaiswal's right index finger touched the ball on the way through. The umpire then dismissed Jaiswal.
Rohit Sharma commented on the contentious call made by the third umpire, adding that such decisions usually seem to go against the Indian team.
"Look, I really don't know what to make of that because the technology didn't show anything. With the naked eye, it seemed that he did touch something. I don't know how the umpires want to use the technology, but in all fairness, he did touch the ball," said Rohit Sharma at the post-match press conference.
"But again, it's about the technology, which we all know is not 100 per cent," he added.
Rohit Sharma also indicated that all the tricky calls seem to be going against the Indian camp. He even called his team a little "unfortunate."
"Like I said, we don't want to look too much into that. It's just that we are most often than not falling on the wrong side of it. It has been happening since India. I think we have been a little unfortunate," said Rohit.
Earlier, former ICC Elite Level Umpire Simon Taufel explained the possible thinking of the third umpire, Sharfuddoula.
“In my view, the decision was out. The third umpire did make the correct decision in the end. With the technology protocols, we do have a hierarchy of redundancy and when the umpire sees a clear deflection off the bat there is no need to go any further and use any other form of technology to prove the case," he said on 7Cricket.
Speaking further, Taufel said, "The clear deflection is conclusive evidence. In this particular case what we have seen from the third umpire, is they’ve used a secondary form of technology, which for whatever reason hasn’t shown the same conclusive evidence of audio to back up the clear deflection."
The final BGT 2024 Test will be played in Sydney on January 3 onwards.
(PTI inputs)
