Ben Stokes and Virat Kohli may want to get rid of umpire’s call: Nasser Hussain reacts to England captain’s DRS call
Former England captain Nasser Hussain said he agrees with Ben Stokes’s take on Zak Crawley’s controversial LBW call in the 3rd Test against India, but does not back the England skipper’s take on doing away with umpire’s call in cricket.
ussain’s comments came after Stokes expressed his disappointment with how Crawley was given out in England’s final innings in Rajkot as the ball-tracking visuals seemingly showed the ball missing the stumps in the 9th over.
The Decision Review System (DRS) has been a topic of debate, particularly concerning the controversial ‘umpire’s call’.
Stokes’s critique wasn’t just a fleeting comment; it was a firm stance against what he perceived as an inconsistency within the game’s rules that could potentially affect the fairness of the outcome.
Crawley was given out on the field and the DRS review upheld the on-field call. The umpire’s call stood, but replays suggested that the ball was missing the stumps by the barest of margins. Stokes later explained that the match referee told him that the ball was hitting the stumps based on DRS calculations even though the visual did not suggest so.