Umpire C.K Nandan was involved in giving an unusual dismissal as he took his own sweet time to give Vidarbha captain Faiz Fazal out on the second day of the Irani Cup match against Rest of India on Wednesday. The incident took place in the 21st over of the match after Fazal edged a delivery from Krishnappa Gowtham which ended straight in the gloves of Ishan Kishan.
Rest of India were quick to react to this as the entire team went on to make a confident appeal. But umpire Nandan was unmoved which initially left the entire Rest of India team disappointed. However, after some time, Nandan decided to raise his finger to give Fazal out on 27 runs in the first innings.
Watch the full incident here:
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Fazal’s 65-ball innings was laced with five boundaries as Vidarbha posted 425 runs in the first innings. For Rest of India, Rahul Chahar (4/112) was the pick of the bowlers.
Meanwhile, at stumps on Day 3, Rest of India managed to score 102/2 in their second innings with Hanuma Vihari (40 not out) and skipper Ajinkya Rahane (25 not out) at the crease. For Vidarbha, Aditya Sarwate and Akshay Wakhare picked one-wicket each.
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Apart from that, Vidarbha’s left-arm spinner Akshay Karnewar had umpire Nandan in a spot of bother when the 26-year-old told the umpire about not only changing the team while bowling but also about the change of arm – from left to right.
Karnewar, who will be playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), is an ambidextrous bowler, capable of bowling with both his arms. And at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur, on Wednesday he switched to his non-leading arm to bowl right-arm over the wicket to left-handed batsman, Rest of India’s Ishan Kishan.
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Akshay made the change after scalping the big wicket of Shreyas Iyer with his leading arm, trapping the Mumbai batsman in front for 19. While Iyer’s was the only wicket Karnewar could take in Rest of India’s innings, which ended at 330, the sight of a bowler bowling with both his arms (of course, not at the same time) made for an interesting sight.
Umpire Nandan was left amused and he even had to cross-check with Karnewar on what exactly was the bowler intending to do.
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