Explained: How Rovman Powell's Last-Ball DRS Almost Exposed Cricket's Bigget Loophole In RR-SRH Thriller
explained: how rovman powell’s last-ball drs almost exposed cricket’s bigget loophole in rr-srh ipl 2024 thriller
Remember how the cricket world was hit with a sudden realization of the boundary count being ensured to win a super over in the 2019 Cricket World Cup final after New Zealand’s heartbreaking defeat to England at Lord’s? The 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) clash on Thursday (May 2) between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) saw another massive loophole in the rules book being exposed.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar showed nerves of steel, with RR needing two runs of the final ball to trap Rovman Powell in front of the stumps, and the umpire raised his finger to seal a victory over the Hyderabad-based franchisee. However, Powell immediately asked for a review after completing one run, triggering tensions around the stadium.
The replays showed the on-field call was correct and the ball was crashing into the stumps, confirming that SRH had won the game by one run.
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How Cricket’s Biggest Loophole was exposed?
Most cricket fans would have thought that if DRS showed the ball was missing the stumps and DRS overturned the decision, the game would have gone to a super over as the batting team had completed a run. However, that would not have been the case, and SRH would still have won the game if the DRS had shown a not-out decision as the on-field umpire had given it out.
According to the ICC playing conditions, once an on-field decision is given out, that ball is declared dead, and the batting team cannot add any runs to their tally even if the decision is changed.
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“If following a Player Review request, an original decision of ‘Out’ is changed to ‘Not Out’, then the ball is still deemed to have become dead when the original decision was made. The batting side, while benefiting from the reversal of the dismissal, shall not benefit from any runs that may subsequently have accrued from the delivery had the on-field umpire originally,” Appendix D of ICC playing conditions state.
Today’s close call is a warning for the lawmakers to take a close look at the rules. One can only hope that it does not take such an incident to occur in a World Cup final for this rule to be corrected.