Ravindra Jadeja dismissal: proper determination made regardless of DRS ‘glitch’
A clarification has been issued concerning Ravindra Jadeja‘s dismissal in India’s first innings of the second Test in Port-of-Spain, with broadcast commentators saying through the tea evaluation present that the proper determination was made by the TV umpire regardless of “a glitch” through the DRS course of.
India have been 360 for five within the 104th over when Kemar Roach provided a ball extensive outdoors off stump. Jadeja took the bait, driving away from his physique, and circled to see the wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva go up in instant celebration. Jadeja was expressionless. And so was the on-field umpire Marais Erasmus.
West Indies challenged the on-field determination of not out and DRS got here into play, beginning with the spin-vision replay, which confirmed bat and ball have been shut collectively. The TV umpire Michael Gough then requested for the help of UltraEdge.
The replay that got here up, nonetheless, gave the impression to be for a unique shot that Jadeja performed. The precise ball was extensive outdoors off stump and Jadeja was enjoying away from his physique. At the purpose the place the ball handed the surface fringe of his bat, his bat was fairly visibly away from his pad. But within the replay the place UltraEdge confirmed a transparent spike, Jadeja’s bat was so near entrance pad that his inside edge flicks it. Furthermore, the shot he was enjoying within the UltraEdge replay gave the impression to be a straight-bat shot. The precise shot that put Jadeja in hassle was extra of an extra-cover drive.
Umpire Gough was glad that there was an edge and requested the on-field umpire Erasmus to reverse his determination. Jadeja was dismissed for 61 off 152 balls and walked off with out protest.
Later on, whereas on air with Curtly Ambrose and Samuel Badree, Daren Ganga provided a clarification whereas talking to visuals of the proper replay of the wicket supply. “This is the actual replay and the ball part. There was no contact with bat on pad,” he mentioned, whereas the replay was proven on the printed. “This is the correct UltraEdge. And the right decision was made in the end, that is the most important thing.
“Just to clear that difficulty up and principally set the report straight, no fault of the umpires or the system, it is only a glitch that passed off.”