The former Indian skipper was seen confronting on-field umpire Richard Illingworth over his and the third umpire’s decision on Australia’s Mitchell Marsh
The second Test between Australia and India in Adelaide has been nothing short of eventful and has been filled with notable moments. One such moment happened when former India skipper Virat Kohli confronted umpires regarding a decision on Australia batter Mitchell Marsh.
The incident occurred during the 58th over on Day 2, when Marsh was struck on the pad by a delivery from Ravichandran Ashwin. The on-field umpire ruled it as not out which prompted skipper Rohit Sharma to opt for DRS.
Seeing the replays, it did look like that the ball had hit the pad first before hitting the bat. However, third umpire Richard Kettleborough believed there was no conclusive evidence to overturn the on-field decision and thus Marsh stayed at the crease.
Kohli, visibly frustrated, confronted on-field umpire Richard Illingworth over the decision and even compared it to a decision involving KL Rahul in the first Test in Perth. Rahul was given out despite replays suggesting that his bat had hit the pad rather than hitting the ball.
“KL’s was the same in Perth, two spikes. One was bat & one was pad,” Kohli told the umpire in the video.
Though Marsh would lose his wicket a little while later, it was Travis Head who ended up causing huge damage to the Indian bowlers and went on to play a brilliant knock of 140 before getting dismissed by Mohammed Siraj.
Australia got bundled out for 337, taking a healthy lead of 153 runs. The Indian bowlers will definitely be a little disappointed with their performance as they would have hoped to not let the lead go over 100 runs when they first came out to bowl.
