Twitter reactions on Virat Kohli’s dismissal in Perth: Twitter had major apprehensions on the Indian captain’s dismissal.
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During the third day of the second Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Perth, India captain Virat Kohli scored his 25th Test hundred, a magnificent one at that. It was another of those instances where Kohli played a rescuing innings for India.
Coming in to bat at No. 4 in the sixth over of the Indian innings, Kohli put on display a spectacular knock which saw him scoring his 14th Test hundred outside of India. In which was his seventh century against Australia, sixth in Australia and 18th as India captain, Kohli celebrated it with a priceless ‘Bat does the talking‘ celebration.
While the Indian fans would have hoped of Kohli carrying on to play at least till India close in on the Australian total of 326 runs, it didn’t happen as Pat Cummins came to Australia’s rescue, dismissing the Indian captain in the 93rd over. Kohli ended up scoring 123 (257) with the help of 13 fours and a six.
However, Kohli’s dismissal wasn’t a smooth one and contained a lot of apprehensions. It all happened on the last delivery of the over when Kohli’s attempt of driving a Cummins delivery saw him edging it to Peter Handscomb at second slip.
Handscomb’s catch came under the observation after there was a doubt regarding whether it was a clean catch or not. With umpire Kumar Dharamasena giving the soft signal as ‘out’, third umpire Nigel Llong required conclusive evidence to overturn the decision.
With replays suggesting no conclusive evidence, Kohli had to take the long walk back to the pavilion. Watch the full video:
OUT or NOT OUT? King #Kohli departs for a magnificent 123. #AUSvIND https://t.co/oAKdXyg0yK pic.twitter.com/bdo6HQT9WX
— Telegraph Sport (@telegraph_sport) December 16, 2018
Read some of the latest Twitter reactions on the same below:
I know there will be a lot of debate on the Kohli dismissal but it is critical to note that the law says there must be conclusive evidence to overturn the on-field umpire’s decision. Kohli thought it bounced but historically those have been given out (more)
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) December 16, 2018
As a spectator I did not see conclusive evidence to give him out at the first place, let alone the decision being overturned.
— Swagato Chandra (@SwgAatO) December 16, 2018
What about the disbelief of the Aussies ? They didn’t seem to be convinced either !
— Ankit Agarwal (@Eraofankit) December 16, 2018
Yeah but umpires can’t even read no balls properly, how can they see this catch from such a distance? If there is doubt, shouldnt the on field soft signal be not out?
— Shashank Venkat 沙善 (@shanky3286) December 16, 2018
Sir, in the first place.. how could the umpire conclusively say the fingers were underneath the ball and give the soft signal as out? On first watch.. it seemed like it had definitely bounced.
— Vaibhav (@vaibhavs7) December 16, 2018
You don’t need to be so politically correct all the time. The soft signal was clearly an incorrect one and should never have been given out on the field. Also calls into question the relevance of the soft signal in dismissals like these which should be based entirely on replays.
— Sameer Dharur (@SameerDharur) December 16, 2018
It looked out … It looks not out . Eyes want to see what Mind want it to See .
— S R Ramnarayan (@ramnarayan_sr) December 16, 2018
Australians are always cheaters. Dharamsena has always done poor umpiring against Indians. Ball clearly touched ground. Only you and Sanjay Manjrekar are favoring the third umpires. Cant understand why
— Ashish Ajit Golechha (@golechhaashish) December 16, 2018
Quite unfortunate to be given out that way. Australia knew well that it was the only way they could have taken his wicket.
— D.Ghosh (@dghosh22) December 16, 2018
The umpires just give these soft signals looking at the body language of the person who’s caught it,don’t they?
That’s absolute shit
That looked more not out than out in slow mo
This soft signal thing has to go,the absolute correct decision is just never given this way— Devesh arora (@Devesharora20) December 16, 2018
The umpires just give these soft signals looking at the body language of the person who’s caught it,don’t they?
That’s absolute shit
That looked more not out than out in slow mo
This soft signal thing has to go,the absolute correct decision is just never given this way— Devesh arora (@Devesharora20) December 16, 2018
Ball didn’t bounced but ball was touching to the ground,it was not comoletely in hand. That means it’s not a clear catch.
TV umpire had evidence to give notout but not for Out. And why onfield umpire came to TV Umpire, because they were not sure, it was notout #PerthMeAnarth— kishankanhaiya@79 (@kishank79) December 16, 2018
Fraudstralia 👎 pic.twitter.com/CYQFIgD3tb
— DoMiNic™ (@dominicoffl) December 16, 2018
Was there as much discussion of the last decision in the first test? Was exactly the same.
— Lindsay (@glamjunkie77) December 16, 2018
I think they should use hotspot and snico to decide whether ball touched the grass or not.#Kohli #KingKohli #AusvInd
— Nitin Gandhi (@DB2Guide) December 16, 2018
Television umpires must realise the burden of responsibility and look properly for evidence to overturn the decision. The fact that he didn’t check front-angle thoroughly raises a lot of questions and rightly so.
— Pontius Pilate (@Shalvpenhauer) December 16, 2018
That’s a bias decision..that’s it, it’s clearly seen that ball touched before reaching to finger and can be identified by any healthy human being, that’s it.
— aniyck (@AnindC) December 16, 2018
It was an bad shot, at the stroke of lunch. No doubt he scored half of India’s total. Still India 80 odd behind Australia
— Ankur Dhanuka (@Ankur8341) December 16, 2018
Handscomb’s body language seems to have influenced the soft signal.. that’s just not on!
— Suraj (@krishsuraj) December 16, 2018
I just have a question for u sir, if 3rd umpire doesn’t have any evidence of the clean catch or not then how come so surly on field umpire give the decision as OUT, why not he directly asked for the TV umpire #AUSvsIND #SeriesDeciderCatch #MakeChangeInLaws @icc @MichaelVaughan
— Tanveer Singh Hora (@imVeer_16) December 16, 2018
I agree more often than not this would stay out but this just seems fishy to me pic.twitter.com/4ILqk1NLLI
— Kishan Patel (@kishan2090) December 16, 2018
I don’t understand why is the Umpire obliged to give a soft signal ??! After watching it from 3 different angles it’s still not conclusive if it’s caught cleanly or not! Just leave it completely upto the Third Umpire he’ll take a call ! No issue of Overuling!
— Rajas Kapure (@Rajas_kapure) December 16, 2018
Ridiculous rule to overturn on-field umpire’s decision.. How could Dharmasena conclude that as out with naked eye.
— Vineet (@iam_vineet) December 16, 2018
