Former umpire Anil Chaudhary offered his opinions on Dewald Brevis' contentious call during Saturday, May 3's RCB vs. CSK Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) match.

The pivotal moment occurred in the 17th over of CSK's 214-run chase. Lungi Ngidi delivered a knee-high full delivery that struck Brevis on the pad, causing the umpire to immediately raise his finger.

Brevis and Ravindra Jadeja, who appeared confused by the situation, continued to run a single as the fielder struck the non-striker's end straight from point. Brevis was notified that the 15-second time limit had passed when he eventually tried to review the verdict.

The situation led to a heated argument between Brevis and Jadeja and umpires Nitin Menon and Mohit Krishnadas. Brevis was forced to leave for a first-ball duck as replays confirmed that the ball would have missed the leg stump.

Anil Chaudhary recently addressed the matter by stating that the hitter has an obligation to glance at the umpire, who counts down to the review in 15 seconds. However, they missed the umpire's signal because they were too busy running.

“It’s the responsibility of the batter to look at the umpire. Even when five seconds are left, the umpire informs the player about it. Generally, there’s no communication gap. It’s a part of our protocol that whenever five seconds are left, we make gestures so that the batter sees it. I saw for the first time that the batters were busy running even after being given out.

The ball is dead after the batter is given out; there’s no point in running. Those runs wouldn’t have counted, even if the decision had been reversed. The batters wasted their time by running, and hence they couldn’t listen to the umpire’s communication,” said Chaudhary in a video shared by Star Sports.

Chaudhary further said that the batters were puzzled since the large screen operator made the error of not showing the timer.

“Even I saw that the umpire told them that it’s beyond 15 seconds now, which must’ve been conveyed to him by the TV umpire. However, the timer didn’t come on the big screen, which is confusing for players. Hence, it’s a cause of worry that it didn’t appear on the big screen. It’s not the mistake of the umpire but the person operating the big screen. It was a bit of bad luck for the players that they couldn’t see it, hence we can’t blame them too much,” he added.

Here is the video:

To make matters worse for CSK, the ball-tracking technology revealed that if Brevis had looked over the decision, the ball would have missed the stumps and been declared not out. To their dismay, he was unable to choose it within the allotted time and was forced to go back to the pavilion.