Sunil Gavaskar slammed the third umpire for giving Yashasvi Jaiswal out despite there being no spike on Snickometer. The TV official overrode the technology as he felt that the bowl had touched the batter’s glove, and there was a clear deflection.
Gavaskar was not satisfied and called it a wrong decision, as the evidence provided to him could be wrong, and the technology should have been taken into consideration.
However, Ravi Shastri had a different view and sided with the official, calling it the right decision. “The third umpire has every right to override the technology if he has the evidence, and in this case, he had. The ball had touched the glove, and the bat, but the attendant of Snickometer went to sleep. Umpire saw the deflection as the ball changed its path a bit,” Ravi Shastri said.
Yashasvi’s dismissal ended India’s hopes of drawing the Test as he was the last set better, and the ones after didn’t last long. He scored 84 runs, his second fifty of the match.
Sanjay Manjrekar also questioned the decision by the third umpire, stating that any other official would have gone with the technology. India were bowled out for 155 while chasing 340 and allowed Australia to take a 2-1 lead with one Test left in Sydney.
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