Indian Premier League (IPL) is one of the most popular league in the cricket world. Players from all over the world are eager to play for this league. But many times during this league, many questions have been raised on IPL due to wrong decisions of umpires. Let us tell you that in the last match between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), the no-ball controversy made a lot of headlines. But now another controversy related to IPL has come to the fore, which is being termed as wide-ball controversy.
What is the matter?
There was a wide-ball dispute in the match played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) on Monday. In fact, in the 19th over of KKR’s innings, the famous Krishna came to bowl from Rajasthan Royals. After which the third and fourth balls of this over were declared wide by umpire Nitin Pandit, surprisingly, the batsman Rinku Singh was already playing off the wicket. The fourth ball that umpire Nitin Pandit declared wide was actually a short ball and batsman Rinku Singh was ready to play it, but this ball was also declared wide. After which the Royals captain Sanju Samson, getting angry at this decision of the umpire, also took the review, which was unsuccessful.
The anger of the audience erupted on the umpire
Due to the wide-ball controversy during this match, the audience got angry against umpire Nitin Pandit. The last ball of the 19th over was bowled by the famous Krishna near the edge of the pitch, which was declared wide by the umpire. To play this ball, Rinku Singh tried to go outside the stumps and the ball before that was also similar, which was not declared wide by the umpire. After this, anger was also seen against the umpire from a group of spectators and cheater-cheater slogans were also raised on their behalf.