Did an error by the third umpire cost Pakistan the one-day international at Karachi? The News, a Pakistan daily, reports that Moin Khan, and not Naved-ul-Hasan, should have taken strike to the last ball of the penultimate over of the match. The confusion arose after Mohammad Kaif took a magnificent catch in the deep to dismiss Shoaib Malik, at which stage Pakistan required ten runs in seven balls.
Quoting a source, the daily says that Simon Taufel, one of the on-field umpires, went by the instruction of Asad Rauf, the third umpire, and allowed Hasan to take strike. “Taufel went by what the third umpire had to say, thinking Moin had not crossed over when Kaif took the catch. But the problem was that Asad Rauf miscalculated the number of balls in that over and thought that the over was complete. But since Moin had crossed over he told Taufel that not Moin but Rana Naveed
should take strike,” the paper quoted the source as saying. “Rauf only realised his mistake when he saw Zaheer Khan continuing with his over, but made no attempt to convey to Taufel that he had made a mistake.” Hasan took a single off that ball which meant that he kept strike for the final over.
The daily also states that though the Pakistan management had made no formal complaint, Rauf had been pulled up by Ranjan Madugalle, the match referee, for the error.
Did TV umpire’s mistake prove too costly at Karachi?
From our correspondent(jang news)
RAWALPINDI: A miscalculation by television umpire Asad Rauf could have also played a role in Pakistan’s narrow defeat by five runs in the first One-day International against India in Karachi.
‘The News’ has learnt from sources that the Pakistan team was not happy with the fact that a call by Asad Rauf had deprived Moin Khan of the batting strike at a crucial time of the match in the penultimate over when Pakistan were ten runs short of victory.
"When Muhammad Kaif took that brilliant catch to dismiss Shoaib Malik in the deep at the total of 340 on the fifth ball of the 49th over Moin had crossed over from the non-strikers end and he should have taken the strike on the final ball of the over instead of the inexperienced Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan," a source said.
According to him, however, Australian umpire Simon Taufel didn’t allow Moin the strike on the final ball as he was told by the television umpire that Rana Naveed should take strike."
"Taufel went by what the third umpire had to say, thinking Moin had not crossed over when Kaif took the catch. But the problem was that Asad Rauf miscalculated the number of balls in that over and thought that the over was complete. But since Moin had crossed over he told Taufel that not Moin but Rana Naveed should take the strike," he said.
"Rauf only realized his mistake when he saw Zaheer Khan continuing with his over but made no attempt to convey to Taufel that he had made a mistake," the source said. The mistake saw Rana Naveed taking a single off the last ball of the over which brought him to face the final over.
This decision of Asad Rauf has raised questions his nomination by PCB on the International Cricket Council (ICC) panel of umpires. Although Pakistan manager Haroon Rasheed said that the Pakistan team had made no complaint to the match referee Ranjan Madugalle on this mistake from the television umpire, the source said that the match referee had pulled up Rauf for his mistake. Rauf will be supervising the second match in Pindi on Tuesday.
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Well ! I guess it wont matter now . but imagin if it had been another umpire. Itwas a serious error though. Ans should have been corrected.
But,a crunch finish like this is usually calls for no mercy.,e.g poor guy
Rana Naveed must be cursing himself to play that match. :bummer:
This Asad Rauf umpire is an idiot. He gave too many off-side wides which really weren't. On one occassion as Sehwag had started his run-up (a ball is actually in play when a bowler starts his run-up), Asad Rauf took two steps forward to get to his position. That is just so unprofessional.
Also, in today's match (2nd ODI), a Sachin four was awarded a six by the third umpire Mr Haider.
Yes there was a ball that was a 4 but was given as a 6. This clearly went in the Indian teams way, luckily for us we won, but some of the judgements made in this series have been pathetic!
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Yes there was a ball that was a 4 but was given as a 6. This clearly went in the Indian teams way, luckily for us we won, but some of the judgements made in this series have been pathetic!
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Well Asad Rauf looked like he WAS unbiased...which is a good thing. But he was giving wides when they weren't and that idiot who was 3rd umpire today DID call a 6 when it was a 4. It's just plain incompetence.
Where's Aleem Dar? He's far and away the best umpire we have and I'm surprised not to see him in these matches so far.