Pakistan has lodged a complaint with match referee Niamh Rashid over on-field umpire Kumar Dharmasena’s decision to award Bangladesh an LBW review before the final ball of the third ODI in Mirpur, Bangladesh.
ESPNcricinfo reports that the Pakistan management has stated in the complaint that Bangladesh sought a review after the incident was replayed on the big screen.
The decision to seek a review and its eventual consequences helped Bangladesh take a crucial position in the match.
Before that ball, Pakistan needed 12 runs to win from two balls.
Rishad Hossain’s delivery was seen to be deflected away from Shaheen Afridi.
The umpire called it a wide as it went wide of the leg side.
The ball was clearly not near Afridi’s legs or any part of his body, and Bangladesh decided to seek a review for LBW after brief deliberations.
According to normal protocols, a decision on a review should be made before the players have a chance to see the incident again, thus preventing the decision to review from being influenced.
However, Pakistan argues that even if it is assumed that there was no opportunity for a review as the ball was initially given wide, normal protocols were not followed.
The ball was shown on the stadium’s big screen as it passed the bat, which could have given Bangladesh enough information to suggest that the ball had touched the bat.
Pakistan is upset about the possibility of allowing Bangladesh to review outside the maximum 15 seconds in which such a decision should be made.
As no timeline was shown on the broadcast, it is not possible to independently confirm whether Bangladesh reviewed the ball in time.
However, a spike was seen as the ball passed the bottom of Afridi’s bat immediately after the review request went to Hawk-Eye, suggesting that it had hit the tip of his finger and therefore could not have been a wide.
Bangladesh lost the review, but Wide reversed the decision, making the required score 12 runs from one ball.
Afridi was stumped on the final ball and in frustration dropped his bat on the wicket.
Bangladesh were awarded an 11-run victory and a 2–1 series win.
The action sought by the Pakistan Cricket Board from the match umpire is still unclear.
However, they are believed to be expecting at least a public acknowledgement that a mistake was made.
This decision is the second in a series of recent matches where Pakistan have felt they were wronged.
In the second ODI against Bangladesh, Salman Agha was caught out for a run-out while trying to deliver the ball to Mehidy Hasan Miraz outside the designated area.
Agha, in frustration, exchanged heated words before throwing down his bat and gloves, and was fined a penalty mark and 50% of his match fee.
Mehidy was also fined 20% of his match fee for the incident.
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