WATCH: Mohammed Shami dismisses Henry Nicholls; Langton Rusere overturns decision after Nicholls’ review
Mohammed Shami dismisses Henry Nicholls: The on-field umpire made a horrible decision to rule the Kiwi opening batsman out.
During the first ODI of the ongoing India’s tour of New Zealand in Hamilton, India fast bowler Mohammed Shami was successful in making early inroads into the opposition’s batting lineup by dismiss their opening batsman Henry Nicholls.
However, the decision had to be overturned after the southpaw opted for a review. It all happened on the third delivery of the fourth over when Shami beat Nicholls and hit his pads with some in-swing.
The Indians appealing in a half-hearted against Nicholls didn’t ooze much confidence until umpire Langton Rusere ruled the decision in their favour. The replays confirmed the speculation of the ball comfortably missing the stumps.
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Nicholls, who was batting at 5 at that point in time, scored his 10th ODI half-century before getting run-out to a brilliant piece of fielding by India captain Virat Kohli.
With New Zealand scoring at a brisk rate in a 348-run chase, the match is expected to go down to the wire. Earlier, it was New Zealand captain Tom Latham who won the toss and invited the visitors in to bat.
On the back of batsman Shreyas Iyer’s maiden ODI century, India scored a formidable 347/4 in 50 overs. Before getting out to New Zealand seamer Tim Southee in the 46th over, Iyer ended up scoring 103 (107) including 11 fours and a six.
Mohammed Shami dismisses Henry Nicholls
— Nishant Barai (@barainishant) February 5, 2020
— Nishant Barai (@barainishant) February 5, 2020
How Twitterati reacted:
One of the most BIZARRE leg before decision I’ve seen as of recent times. #INDvsNZ
— Pranav Prasanna (@RedGeneral18) February 5, 2020
WTH that umpire was doing. Chalo out de hi deta hu#INDvsNZ
— Ravikant Rai (@RavikantRai2) February 5, 2020
That’s one of the worst decision i have seen in the recent time.
Standard of umpiring is a concern.#INDvsNZ— Paras Chaudhary (@ParasChaudhay) February 5, 2020
That was an awful piece of umpiring. #NZvIND
— Martin Partridge (@martypartridge) February 5, 2020
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