Indian Cricket Team on Tuesday displayed poor judgement skills with the Decision Review System (DRS) in the third and final T20 International against Australia. Indian skipper Virat Kohli flunked both their reviews while also getting timed out once.
Australian Batsman Matthew Wade was spared his inning in the 11th over when Left-arm fast bowler T Natarajan bowled on the leg of the batsman. The ball struck his pad but there was no appeal for the LBW.
Due to a mistake, the replay was shown on the big screen as soon as the ball hit Wade. Replay indicated that the ball was hitting the stumps. Kohli tried to take advantage of this scenario after he decided to go for the DRS but was rightfully turned down.
New Zealand player Jimmy Neesham took to Twitter to criticise that passage of play, saying, "How good! Batter misses a leg-stump half volley. Bowler doesn't appeal. Keeper turns down the review. Big screen dude plays the replay too early. Umpire accepts the review until the batter complains. That's gotta be the most mistakes made in a 20-second window in all cricket."
India then wasted both their reviews, against Glenn Maxwell.
The first goof-up came on the last ball of the 15th over of the Australian innings. The hard-hitting batsman went for a reverse-sweep against leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal but missed it. But replays showed that the ball had not touched the bat before wicketkeeper KL Rahul caught it.
India's next miss came on the first ball of the 17th over with Maxwell trying a reverse hit against pace bowler Shardul Thakur. Kohli seemed uncertain but decided to take a DRS at the last moment. Once again the replays showed the ball had missed the bat before going into Rahul's gloves.
Earlier in the ODI series as well, India had wasted a couple of reviews against Steve Smith in the first match and against Aaron Finch in the third match.
In the T20I series, they got a review right in the first T20I but got one wrong against Steve Smith in the second match.
India lost the match by 12 runs in the end.
