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BGT – MCG Test – Yashasvi Jaiswal controversial caught decision – out or not out?


India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed in unusual circumstances during the final session on day five of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG after an on-field not-out decision for caught-behind was overturned by the third umpire despite the technology available not doing enough to confirm the edge.

Jaiswal, batting on 84, attempted to hook a bouncer from Pat Cummins, the ball was caught by wicketkeeper Alex Carey, the Australians appealed, on-field umpire Joel Wilson said not-out, and Australia reviewed the decision.

While real-time Snicko showed a flat line as the ball passed the bat, regular replays showed a big deflection. Third umpire Sharfuddoula went by what he saw – the deflection – and overturned the decision in Australia’s favour. Jaiswal was seen chatting with the umpires before walking off. His dismissal meant India’s last hope of saving the Test was gone. They were left tottering at 140 for 7 in a chase of 340 and eventually went down by 184 runs.

Simon Taufel was in agreement with the third umpire, saying the deflection was “conclusive evidence”.

“In my view, the decision was out,” Taufel said on Channel 7. “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. The clear deflection is conclusive evidence.

“In this particular case, what we have seen from the third umpire is they have 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. In the end, the third umpire did the right thing and went back to the clear deflection and overturned the umpire field. So, in my view correct decision made.”

On the live broadcast on Star sports, Mark Nicholas and Sanjay Manjrekar called it a “brave” call by the third umpire.

“On Jaiswal’s dismissal, I think it’s very brave of the third umpire to over-ride Snicko,” Nicholas said. “I think that’s pretty rare too.”

Manjrekar said, “These are not the best angles, there was one angle given which was front-on, and that’s where you see the deflection when you see it visually, then you see the Snicko that reconfirms everything. Any other umpire would have gone, well, if the Snicko was not showing it – and I love Snicko as a technology – I’m not going to give that out. That also would be accepted by us.”

“I don’t know if any other umpire, I mean my guess is that it runs off both bat and glove, that’s a total guess,” Nicholas added. “I think that’s the problem watching that replay. Or any other replays.”

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