Australia faced a five-ball over in the first innings against Afghanistan on Friday night as they battled for their lives. What’s more interesting is that even commentators missed it.
Australia’s innings’ fourth over was short one ball, which may have lost the team a few crucial runs.
At this point, every run matters since Australia is attempting to increase its net run rate in order to surpass England and get to the semifinals.
David Warner and Mitchell Marsh raced on an overthrow after having already run two, adding an additional ball to the scoreboard.
Two distinct balls were counted on the scoreboard display during the telecast, indicating that Australia had ran two and then three runs.
After only five balls, the umpires ruled “over,” but no players seemed to catch the mistake.
Although the score was changed, Australia’s innings still lacked one ball.
If the third umpire is checking every ball if there’s a no ball in case then they must check these important factors of game. Umpiring has been pretty ordinary in this world cup.
Earlier, during India versus Bangladesh match, umpires missed to penalize India for the unusual fake throw distraction.
When Pakistan played South Africa, Mohammad Nawaz was given lbw straight and in the paced moment of confusion, he didn’t review it. Later, it showed that the ball was clearly deflected of his bat.