A rare incident occurred on Day 3 of the first Test between Bangladesh and India. On the first ball of the 32nd over in India’s 2nd innings, bowled by Yasir Ali to Shubman Gill, the ball spun from outside off stump to hit Gill on the pads. The Bangladesh players appealed in unison but the onfield umpire did not raise the finger. Bangladesh captain discussed with his players and then went for review. The umpire went upstairs but then a shocking reply came. The umpires were told that the DRS camera was down and they would not be able to review the delivery, either with Snicko’s ball tracker.
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Fans took potshots at BCB and ICC as such a shocking incident took place in an international match with a big technical glitch, check reactions here:
3rd umpire/DRS to Bangladesh #INDvBAN #INDvsBangladesh pic.twitter.com/WbzSnpwD7r
— _Duck_ (@_I_QuAcK_) December 16, 2022
drs machine is not working #INDvsBangladesh #bcb #ICC #BCCI
What a coincidence? — Devil boy __ (@RatherMurtaza09) December 16, 2022
What? DRS not available on an LBW appeal? Such instances can cause so much to teams.
Is this international cricket?@ICC should look into it and spend some money in tech.
What a disgrace#INDvsBAN ,#Gill #DRS— Sankalp Dubey__ (@SDSankalp2022) December 16, 2022
We’re in the year 2022 which is nearing end. The DRS goes down & deprives a team of the entitlement to ask review. What’s going on @ICC,#INDvBAN #cricket— Ravi Bhai ____ (@tracer_bullet1) December 16, 2022
Bangladesh ko apne desh m hi vishwas nhi ho rha h ….bails gir nhi rha h ..DRS available nhi hota h #BANvIND #cricket #INDvBAN pic.twitter.com/6KLs9RRnNW
— khel ka bhukhar (@cric_ka_fever) December 16, 2022
Bangladesh players were left frustrated with DRS being down and denied to them. However, if they had taken it, they could have lost a review. The ball was clearly pitching outside the line and hitting Gill outside the line as well. That would have been given a not out from the upstairs and also a review would have been lost by Bangladesh.
Gill played brilliantly in the 2nd innings, completing a fifty at the time of writing this article. Cheteshwar Pujara too was batting well at the other end. India had lost just one wicket, at the time of filing of this story, in the form of skipper KL Rahul, who scored 23 off 62 balls that included 3 boundaries.