Watch: On-Field Drama As TV Umpire Says Not Out But Ground Umpire Signals Out
The gentleman’s game of cricket sometimes becomes so funny that you can’t help but roll on the floor laughing. In one of the funniest incidents that ever happened on a cricket pitch, the TV umpire said not out to an LBW review, but the ground umpire mistakenly signaled it out. And this didn’t happen in a domestic competition but in an international game. It was the second ODI of the three-match series between South Africa and Australia Women at the North Sydney Oval.
It was an LBW appeal from Australia against SuneLuus on the bowling of Ashleigh Gardner. Ground umpire Claire Polosak gave it out initially before Australia went upstairs. TV umpire Sue Redfern found out that the ball was pitched outside off stump and that the impact was also well outside it.
The TV umpire said, “Pitching outside off, impact outside. Back to Claire on the field, please. Stay in, not out. Stand by. Signal is not out now.” During this, the camera re-focused on ground umpire Claire, who mistakenly raised her finger to give it out. She soon realized her mistake and changed her signal.
Watch it here.
Talking about the game, Kapp displayed a brilliant performance to power the South African women's ODI team to clinch their maiden ODI win over Australia in Sydney on Wednesday and keep them alive in the 50-over series.