‘Spoke to Karun…’: PBKS co-owner Preity Zinta lashes out at third umpire for ‘unacceptable’no-sixcall

Jaipur:

Punjab Kings (PBKS) co-owner Preity Zinta lashed out on the third umpire for ruling an in depth selection on the boundary inside the Delhi Capitals’ favour whatever the fielder, Karun Nair, signalling it a six. Zinta said that such decision-making inside the know-how interval, with so many replays on the TV umpire’s disposal, was ‘unacceptable’. Punjab Kings misplaced their penultimate home sport in the direction of the Capitals by six wickets as their possibilities of qualifying inside the excessive two took a severe hit.

The incident handed off on the last word provide of the fifteenth over, bowled by Mohit Sharma. Sharma dropped it fast and Shashank Singh latched onto it in a flash, hitting it within the course of the long-on boundary. Nair, who was inside the deep, wanted to leap to have the power to catch it, nonetheless he did keep on to the ball. However, the fielder was agonisingly close to the boundary and dropped it immediately sooner than the momentum took him out. Nair appeared to have contact his foot on the boundary rope and signalled it a six immediately.

The replays confirmed that Nair caught the ball and immediately threw sooner than going over the boundary and subsequently, the third umpire dominated that it wasn’t a six. Nair’s foot did contact the rope nonetheless when he was coming once more in to decide on up the ball once more. Could which have led Nair to signal the six? As he too appeared a bit amused after the replay and the umpire’s selection.

After the game, Zinta wasn’t the happiest and talked about that she spoke to Nair after the game and he as soon as extra confirmed that he thought it was a six. 

“In such a high profile tournament with so much technology at the Third Umpire’s disposal such mistakes are unacceptable & simply shouldn’t happen. I spoke To Karun after the game & he confirmed it was DEFINITELY a 6 ! I rest my case!,” Zinta wrote on X (beforehand Twitter). Would that decision have made a distinction? Delhi Capitals chased the complete down in 19.3 overs and would have required three additional had the six been given since Shashank and skipper Shreyas Iyer had run two.

Now that it’s achieved and dusted, Punjab Kings ought to shrug this defeat away and get once more to worthwhile strategies as they deal with Mumbai Indians of their closing sport in Jaipur with an intention to stay in rivalry for a top-two spot.

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