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Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals are locking horns in the 55th match of the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League 2023. The hosts’ skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first at the home ground MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Apart from the balanced start from both CSK batters and DC bowlers, the match is being discussed for a controversial umpiring decision by the third umpire at the beginning of the match.
Cricket fans are also calling out the poor standards of umpiring in such a big cricketing league in the World. It all started after the CSK opener Devon Conway survived a controversial LBW call against Delhi Capitals’ spinner Lalit Yadav.
The incident happened on the second ball of the third ball in the CSK innings, Conway went on to play a sweep shot over Lalit Yadav but the former happened to try it a bit early and the ball hit his pads. Later on, it turned into a big shout from the bowler and the other DC players. But considering it a very thin edge, the TV umpire Anil Chaudhary turned down the DRS which favoured Conway to survive this. Although in the first-sight visuals, it was looking like there was no edge of bat or the gloves of Conway.
The fans were also unhappy with the umpire’s decision; they immediately took to Twitter to call out the umpiring standards in the Indian Premier League. Fans also accused the umpires of a lot of things for not delivering an umpiring up to the expectations.
Here’s how fans reacted:
3rd umpire more like 3rd class umpire
— Devil (@___d_evil__) May 10, 2023
For such decisions umpires needs to be penalized as well..
— Amit. (@iOnlyAJ) May 10, 2023
WORLD'S BIGGEST LEAGUE with 3rd Class Umpiring
Did the third umpire take off his glasses or was there another screen in front of him?
— Vipin Tiwari (@vipintiwari952) May 10, 2023
Fair call imo pic.twitter.com/V4FbWTCMni
— Heisenberg ☢ (@internetumpire) May 10, 2023
3rd umpire CSK ke sath hai 😂
— Abhinav Singh (@AbhinavLifestyl) May 10, 2023
Where is the spike 🤣need ultra glasses also 🧐
— Mr.Yadav (@MigTrader) May 10, 2023
Probably he would have farted 💨
— 𝑴𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒃𝒐 (@Mogemmbo) May 10, 2023
"I see a clear spike when ball passes the bat" umpire said.😭😭😭
— 𝑾𝖆𝒔𝖎𝖋𝖋 (@wasiff__) May 10, 2023
Firse 2 saal ban kro chutiyo ko
— Pranav Singh (@PraniLFC) May 10, 2023
Chor saaley, always these decisions are in there favor
— Gaurav awatramani (@indiaawakening7) May 10, 2023
— Kumar (@kumar07010) May 10, 2023
What to expect from Anil Chowdhry...He has been umpiring for a very long time and still, he gives such blunders.
— RISHABH NAUTIYAL 🇮🇳 (@nauty14aug) May 10, 2023
Talking about the ongoing action of the match, the hosts CSK have lost three wickets on the score of 67 runs in the 10.1 overs. At the time of filling this copy, the veteran batter Ajinkya Rahane and young batting all-rounder Shivam Dube were there in the middle on the individual scores of 19 and 1 runs respectively.