India’s seven-wicket win over Pakistan on Sunday in ICC women’s T20 World Cup has been marred by a controversial umpiring error.
India scored an extra four runs in their innings after umpire Jacqueline Williams accidentally allowed an extra seventh ball to be bowled in their seventh over of the innings against Pakistan.
Nida Dar bowled the seventh over of India’s innings, which was hit by Jemimah Rodrigues for her first boundary of the innings.
Jemimah went onto play an unbeaten match winning innings of 38-ball 53 runs, which included eight boundaries.
This is not the first time in recent times, when a controversial umpiring decision has changed the course of an India-Pakistan game.
In India’s close win over Pakistan in 2022 men’s T20 World Cup in Melbourne, Virat Kohli was delivered a full toss by Mohammad Nawaz in the 19th over, which he hit into the mid-wicket stands and immediately signalled at Marais Erasmus, the leg umpire, for a no-ball.
The two on-field umpires, Rod Tucker and Erasmus, got together and eventually signalled a no-ball, which proved to be decisive.
Former cricketers and many Pakistani fans thought that Kohli had put Erasmus under pressure, which led him to signal a no-ball.
“If you are going to call something, you are going to put pressure on the umpire, then of course Virat is a big name. So sometimes umpires get under pressure,”said Waqar about the aforementioned incident.
