‘Hamare gully cricket ke umpire zyada strict hai’ – Fans react as New Zealand off-spinner Eden Carson bowls 11 overs in ODI against Sri Lanka
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 116 runs.
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Jul 1, 2023 2:42 pm
Eden Carson (Source: Twitter)
New Zealand and Sri Lanka played out an eventful ODI. This was the second ODI at Galle which was a women’s Championship match. New Zealand racked up a big target and scored 329-7 in their 50 overs. Amelia Kerr made an outstanding knock of 108 off 106 balls with seven fours and one six. Sophie Devine the skipper played a marvelous innings off 137 off 121 balls with 17 fours and two sixes. For Sri Lanka, on the other hand, Oshadi Ranasinghe was the most successful bowler for Sri Lanka as she picked up 3-68 in her 10 overs.
In the second innings, A weird incident happened which made it the talk of the town. New Zealand off-spinner Eden Carson bowled the 45th over in the innings. This meant she finished her 10-over quota with impressive figures of 2-40. But due to a serious lapse by the umpires, who did not ensure proper monitoring of the number of overs bowled by Carson, she returned again and bowled the 47th over. After that, her figures read 2-41 from 11 overs.
Lea Tahuhu picked up four wickets for New Zealand against Sri Lanka at Galle
Even though the lapse was a very serious one, it did not change the game in a big way as Sri Lanka could only muster 213 in just 48.4 overs that they played. Lea Tahuhu came steaming in at the Sri Lankans and picked up 4-31 in her 8-over spell. Hannah Rowe, Devine, Kerr and Fran Jonas took a wicket each in their respective spells. In the end, it was a brilliant performance from New Zealand with bat and ball.
Kavisha Dilhari was the only bright spot for the Islanders as she scored a quickfire 84 off 98 balls with nine fours. Her innings did delay the inevitable but New Zealand did register a big win of 116 runs. While Dilhari showed what she was made of. She was running out of partners when it came to the run chase. New Zealand showed the big gulf that existed between them and Sri Lanka in ODI cricket through this dominating win.
Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter:
Umpires had one job and they failed 😹
— Bateman | Ipl’s coming home era (@baldaati) July 1, 2023
The umpires need to be fired , incompetence is infectious
Umpire & Match Officials must be sacked after this incident. They have only one job to do and this is huge error in term of match result. Imagine if this happened in men's cricket, Internet will explode.
