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VIRAT Kohli seemingly forgot the rules of cricket on Tuesday, reviewing an lbw appeal against Faf du Plessis despite the South African getting plenty of bat on ball.
But is it the worst review ever? It’s a tighter race than you might think.
Following the Indian skipper’s faux pas, we take a look back at some of the worst Decision Review System requests made since it was first introduced in 2008.
And no, Shane Watson does not feature.
NEW ZEALAND V AZHAR ALI, 2016
Chasing wickets on day five of the second Test against Pakistan in November 2016, Kane Williamson got a little bit desperate, burning a review looking for an edge that wasn’t there against Azhar Ali.
Azhar had swayed out of the way of a short ball from Matt Henry and after consulting with wicketkeeper BJ Watling, Williamson elected to send it upstairs.
Replays confirmed there was about a foot of daylight between bat and ball.
“Well that’s about the worst review ever,” the commentator said. “He’s (Williamson) going to cop a fair bit now, that was a shocker.”
PAKISTAN V DAVID WARNER, 2016
A month later, Pakistan took a leaf out of Williamson’s book, calling for one of the worst reviews ever seen on Australian shores.
David Warner was left bemused when Misbah-ul-Haq was talked into sending a caught appeal upstairs on day three of the Boxing Day Test, after Mohammad Amir sent one whizzing past the outside edge.
You could have fit another cricket ball through the gap between the actual ball and the edge of Warner’s bat.
“That was nowhere near the bat,” Pakistani great and former coach Waqar Younis said in the Nine Network commentary box. “Even without looking at the slow-motion, you can see there’s a huge gap between the bat and ball. I don’t know what (wicketkeeper) Sarfraz heard. What a waste of a review.”
SRI LANKA V JOE ROOT, 2015
The only one-day review to make our list and it’s a serious howler.
The Sri Lankans produced one of the more regrettable moments of their World Cup campaign when they asked for the most ridiculous of lbw reviews against England batting star Joe Root.
Desperate to remove Root, captain Angelo Mathews was talked into sending Suranga Lakmal’s lbw appeal upstairs.
It looked a poor appeal to the naked eye, with the ball striking Root on the knee while he was standing outside leg-stump and it was even worse on replay.
INDIA V FAF DU PLESSIS, 2018
At least that one hit the pad! One of the most excitable players in the world, Indian skipper Virat Kohli let his emotions get the better of him on day four of the second Test against South Africa. Desperate to remove his counterpart Faf du Plessis before he had done too much damage, Kohli sent up a Jasprit Bumrah appeal for lbw. A pinpoint yorker fired at du Plessis’s toes, the delivery was indeed destined to crash into the stumps. There was one big problem however — du Plessis had hit the leather off it.
BANGLADESH V VIRAT KOHLI, 2017
Kohli’s mistake is even less forgivable considering he’d had a similar review sent up against himself a year earlier.
Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim suffered a genuine brainfade when he sent up an lbw whisper — it’d be an exaggeration to call it a shout — against Kohli.
It took the third umpire all of 18 seconds — including time taken to check for a no-ball — to confirm the correct decision had been made by the on field umpire, with replays conclusively proving that the middle of Kohli’s bat was the first thing to make contact with the ball. In fact, at no stage did the ball even come close to touching Kohli’s pads.
SOUMYA SARKAR V SRI LANKA, 2017
You could make an argument that this review should not be on the list — it did not make it upstairs — but it has to the be worst referral ever called for.
For reasons only known to the man himself, Bangladeshi opener Soumya Sarkar called for the third umpire when he had his off-stump pegged back by Sri Lanka’s Asela Gunaratne
You can’t review it if you’ve been bowled, Soumya.
Virat Kohli's howler yesterday features in this list. Fair to say his batting is better than his judgement making of LBWs
But is it the worst review ever? It’s a tighter race than you might think.
Following the Indian skipper’s faux pas, we take a look back at some of the worst Decision Review System requests made since it was first introduced in 2008.
And no, Shane Watson does not feature.
NEW ZEALAND V AZHAR ALI, 2016
Chasing wickets on day five of the second Test against Pakistan in November 2016, Kane Williamson got a little bit desperate, burning a review looking for an edge that wasn’t there against Azhar Ali.
Azhar had swayed out of the way of a short ball from Matt Henry and after consulting with wicketkeeper BJ Watling, Williamson elected to send it upstairs.
Replays confirmed there was about a foot of daylight between bat and ball.
“Well that’s about the worst review ever,” the commentator said. “He’s (Williamson) going to cop a fair bit now, that was a shocker.”
PAKISTAN V DAVID WARNER, 2016
A month later, Pakistan took a leaf out of Williamson’s book, calling for one of the worst reviews ever seen on Australian shores.
David Warner was left bemused when Misbah-ul-Haq was talked into sending a caught appeal upstairs on day three of the Boxing Day Test, after Mohammad Amir sent one whizzing past the outside edge.
You could have fit another cricket ball through the gap between the actual ball and the edge of Warner’s bat.
“That was nowhere near the bat,” Pakistani great and former coach Waqar Younis said in the Nine Network commentary box. “Even without looking at the slow-motion, you can see there’s a huge gap between the bat and ball. I don’t know what (wicketkeeper) Sarfraz heard. What a waste of a review.”
SRI LANKA V JOE ROOT, 2015
The only one-day review to make our list and it’s a serious howler.
The Sri Lankans produced one of the more regrettable moments of their World Cup campaign when they asked for the most ridiculous of lbw reviews against England batting star Joe Root.
Desperate to remove Root, captain Angelo Mathews was talked into sending Suranga Lakmal’s lbw appeal upstairs.
It looked a poor appeal to the naked eye, with the ball striking Root on the knee while he was standing outside leg-stump and it was even worse on replay.
INDIA V FAF DU PLESSIS, 2018
At least that one hit the pad! One of the most excitable players in the world, Indian skipper Virat Kohli let his emotions get the better of him on day four of the second Test against South Africa. Desperate to remove his counterpart Faf du Plessis before he had done too much damage, Kohli sent up a Jasprit Bumrah appeal for lbw. A pinpoint yorker fired at du Plessis’s toes, the delivery was indeed destined to crash into the stumps. There was one big problem however — du Plessis had hit the leather off it.
BANGLADESH V VIRAT KOHLI, 2017
Kohli’s mistake is even less forgivable considering he’d had a similar review sent up against himself a year earlier.
Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim suffered a genuine brainfade when he sent up an lbw whisper — it’d be an exaggeration to call it a shout — against Kohli.
It took the third umpire all of 18 seconds — including time taken to check for a no-ball — to confirm the correct decision had been made by the on field umpire, with replays conclusively proving that the middle of Kohli’s bat was the first thing to make contact with the ball. In fact, at no stage did the ball even come close to touching Kohli’s pads.
SOUMYA SARKAR V SRI LANKA, 2017
You could make an argument that this review should not be on the list — it did not make it upstairs — but it has to the be worst referral ever called for.
For reasons only known to the man himself, Bangladeshi opener Soumya Sarkar called for the third umpire when he had his off-stump pegged back by Sri Lanka’s Asela Gunaratne
You can’t review it if you’ve been bowled, Soumya.
Virat Kohli's howler yesterday features in this list. Fair to say his batting is better than his judgement making of LBWs
