Many decisions of umpire went against Team IndiaImage Credit Source: PTI
In the ongoing ICC Women's World Cup 2025 in India and Sri Lanka, some kind of drama is happening. The trend continued in the match played between India and Pakistan, where especially the umpiring came under controversy. The field umpire and third umpire posted in this match made mistakes that shocked everyone. In particular, Team India was a victim of this, who had to become a victim of the wrong decisions of the umpire 3 times. At the same time, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur also contributed to this and made many mistakes about DRS.
In this match played on Sunday in Columbon, Team India batted first and scored 247 runs. In response, when the Pakistani team landed for batting, the drama started in the first over itself. Indian fast bowler Renuka Singh had a strong appeal to LBW on the third ball but the umpire gave it a not out. But after some time, when the replay was seen, it was clearly visible in it that the ball was on the stump and it should have been out.
Now once a mistake is bound to happen, but within the next 5 overs, such a situation came again and twice the umpire gave the wrong decisions. The second time this happened on the last ball of the fourth over. On this ball of Kranti Goud, LBW appealed against Pakistani batsman Muniba Ali but the umpire also gave not out here. This time too, in the replay, the ball was on the line of the stump, the impact on the pad was also on the line and it was looking on the wicket. That is, the red light was burning on all three fronts and it should have been given out.
Then the same story was repeated in the sixth over. Once again the revolution was the bowler and on the fifth ball of his over, LBW appealed against Sidra Amin, but this time also not out and then the same 3 red lights appeared in the replay. Apparently, umpiring from 3 wrong decisions within the first 6 overs is natural to raise questions and it also disappointed Team India.
But while the umpiring was very bad, there were mistakes of the entire team including captain Harmanpreet Kaur, who did not use DRS properly on these three occasions. LBW appealed on the very first ball of the Pakistani innings, which was given not out by the umpire. But Team India took DRS on this, while it was seen from the beginning that the ball was going out of the leg stump. The umpire's decision in the replay proved to be correct and a review deteriorated. Fearing this mistake, Team India did not take a review on the right occasions.
But even after this, Captain Kaur made a mistake. After losing 3 consecutive opportunities, Harmanpreet took a review for the fourth time and this time the same thing happened on the first ball of the innings. The Indian team had appealed for a catch behind the wicket outside the leg stump, which was rejected by the umpire. Harmanpreet took a review and clearly showed in the replay that the ball was not even with the bat. In this way, while the poor umpiring snatched 3 opportunities from Team India, the Indian team badly used DRS and lost both reviews by achieving any success.
