‘Nobody cares for a bowler’ – Ravi Ashwin lambasts Pant for ‘insulting’ Digvesh Rathi’s ‘mankad’ attraction
Ravichandran Ashwin lambasted Rishabh Pant for withdrawing a non-striker finish run-out attraction, made by Digvesh Rathi. The bowler appealed for the dismissal, however the umpire ultimately dominated it not out. Soon after that, Pant withdrew the attraction, which created controversy.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets to verify their berth in Qualifier 1 of the continuing IPL 2025. There had been a number of speaking factors within the match, together with Rishabh Pant’s scintillating ton, Jitesh Sharma’s match-winning knock however the largest one was Digvesh Rathi’s attraction for a run-out within the non-striker’s finish, which was not solely given not-out however apparently, Pant additionally cancelled the attraction.
The incident occurred within the seventeenth over of the match. Jitesh, who was in terrific type, was near taking the sport dwelling and that’s when Jitesh observed that the batter was far forward of his crease and ultimately dislodged the stumps. When umpire Michael Gough requested Digvesh if he would attraction, the bowler confirmed with a ‘yes’. The matter ultimately moved to the third umpire, who apparently, dominated it out.
Later, former umpire Anil Chaudhary famous that it was out and the third umpire might need made an error in judgement. In the meantime, former India worldwide Ravichandran Ashwin lambasted Pant for withdrawing the attraction in the long run. He believes that the keeper-batter insulted the bowler by withdrawing and since Digvesh isn’t very well-known in the meanwhile, it was simple for Pant to tug off the act.
“This could be Digvesh Rathi’s final game. It must have left a scar on a bowler that it will really affect him. Nobody really cares about a bowler, so it’s easy to insult a bowler in front of a million people. Let’s talk about cricket for a second. According to the law of the game, it went upstairs, the umpire said not-out and it is not-out. There’s absolutely no scene of withdrawing,” Ashwin mentioned on his YouTube channel.
Jitesh went on to play a charismatic knock of unbeaten 85 runs off 33 balls, which helped RCB chase 228 runs with eight balls remaining. It was their highest chase in IPL historical past.
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