The New Zealand-Netherlands game saw a controversial stumping decision where the TV umpire reversed the on-field call, citing that the wicketkeeper had collected the ball in front of the stumps.
There was a second drama in the 41st over of the Netherlands-New Zealand run chase when Sybrand Engelbrecht was recalled from the boundary line after TV umpire Joel Wilson overturned a surprise on-field call. .
Engelbrecht made an early save from Rachin Ravindra and tipped the ball offside. But Ravindra was smart enough to catch him running down the track and shoot a quick short ball well outside the touchline. Inglebrecht missed the ball and his pads flew far off the ground.
The on-field umpire didn’t have to tell the TV umpire, and Engelbrecht went the long way back. But on his way back to the pavilion, the referee told him to stop.
Replays showed that New Zealand wicketkeeper Tom Latham was near the stump line when he recovered the ball. As a result, the decision was referred to the television umpire, who, after several replays, concluded that Latham’s gloves were not completely behind the stumps when he retrieved the ball. “Bring him back. Looks like he collected the ball in front of the stumps,” he said during the review. “Just to check, where are the gloves when he retrieves them? He hasn’t gone behind the stumps, so it will be a no-ball and the batsman won’t be out.”
According to the rules of cricket, the wicketkeeper must remain behind the stumps until the ball makes contact with the bat or the batsman, passes through the stumps on the batsman’s side, or the batsman attempts a run . Failure to do so would result in a no-ball, and in this case that’s exactly what happened.
However, this decision was spontaneous and angered many viewers, including commentators. “Well, as a former wicketkeeper I have to say, this is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said. “This is really crazy. When the ball went into the gloves, the gloves were well behind the stumps and clear. They had the upper hand initially, but by the time the ball went into the gloves they were behind the stumps. Look at the gloves there. Are you saying it’s not a ball? Well, if you look at the newspaper tomorrow, it’ll probably be there, but it’s not there for me. ”
Inglebrecht then took a diving catch on the square-leg boundary by Devon Conway after a crack-pull shot from the bowling of Matt Henry, making him 29 for 34 and eventually being dismissed for four overs.
Netherlands were bowled out by 223 runs and lost by 99 runs after losing to Pakistan by 81 runs at the same venue a few days earlier.
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