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Embarrassing error?!
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Shan Masood was caught in the slips on the first day of the Sydney Test match but there seemed to be an error in the no ball check for the dismissal, which showed the Pakistan captain being in two places at once.
Four overs before his dismissal, Masood had survived another edge into the slip cordon after a review showed Mitchell Marsh had overstepped. On the no ball check for the incident, the TV umpire Joel Wilson was shown pictures of Marsh’s foot being well over the line as it came down, with Mohammad Rizwan standing at the non-striker’s end in the background.
When Masood once again edge to the slips off Marsh, giving an easy catch to Steve Smith, Wilson decided to check the front foot to make sure Marsh hadn’t overstepped for a second time. He was again showed the replay from a side-on angle of Marsh’s delivery stride, with his foot coming down behind the line this time. Masood had to walk back to the dressing room for 35, leaving Pakistan 96-5.
However, the replay Wilson was shown could not have been from the same ball to which Masood was dismissed. Rizwan was standing at the non-striker’s end during the dismissal, just as he had been when he appeared in the shot of Marsh’s delivery stride for the no ball check. But, on the footage of Marsh’s delivery stride for the dismissal delivery, the batter standing in the background of the shot was clearly not Rizwan and was actually Masood himself.
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Shan Masood was caught in the slips on the first day of the Sydney Test match but there seemed to be an error in the no ball check for the dismissal, which showed the Pakistan captain being in two places at once.
Four overs before his dismissal, Masood had survived another edge into the slip cordon after a review showed Mitchell Marsh had overstepped. On the no ball check for the incident, the TV umpire Joel Wilson was shown pictures of Marsh’s foot being well over the line as it came down, with Mohammad Rizwan standing at the non-striker’s end in the background.
When Masood once again edge to the slips off Marsh, giving an easy catch to Steve Smith, Wilson decided to check the front foot to make sure Marsh hadn’t overstepped for a second time. He was again showed the replay from a side-on angle of Marsh’s delivery stride, with his foot coming down behind the line this time. Masood had to walk back to the dressing room for 35, leaving Pakistan 96-5.
However, the replay Wilson was shown could not have been from the same ball to which Masood was dismissed. Rizwan was standing at the non-striker’s end during the dismissal, just as he had been when he appeared in the shot of Marsh’s delivery stride for the no ball check. But, on the footage of Marsh’s delivery stride for the dismissal delivery, the batter standing in the background of the shot was clearly not Rizwan and was actually Masood himself.
