The 12th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) has seen a lot of controversies within a short time after it’s beginning on March 23. The mankading incident where Ashwin running out Jos Buttler during the Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) game, took the limelight which turned out to be negative publicity for Ashwin, though some have supported him as well. However, not exactly similar but there was another controversy happened during the match between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) last night.

 

 

RCB required 7 runs to win off the last ball which was bowled by Lasith Malinga. That was a clear no-ball but the umpire S Ravi missed that at the bowling-end. Due to that, RCB ended up losing the game by 6 runs where they could manage only one run in the last delivery. However, RCB captain Virat Kohli got angry and shared that in the post-match presentation as well.

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However, after the incident, a senior Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) official, shared in the Business Standard, “What you saw (yesterday) was a symptom and not the disease. It has been two years since the Umpires’ Committee functioned. The process that was followed earlier was that the umpires were assessed during the year by a panel of former umpires who were on the Umpires Committee.”

“The Committee members were also free to visit and see the assessment being done. All of that went out of the window once the Committee of Administrators (CoA) moved in lock, stock, and barrel. Mistakes happened then too but there was a system because of which the umpires were apprehensive since they were being judged,” he further added.

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“Cut to 2018-19. There is no Umpires’ Committee in place and when you look a little deeper, there were not even enough umpires prior to the start of the season to officiate in the ‘mega season’ which was an unmitigated disaster if you ask me. So, there was a hurried induction of umpires, which itself was riled in controversy since there were reports that one of the persons involved in the process was also running an academy to prepare umpires for these exams,” the BCCI official said.