VIDEO | Chinnaswamy crowd boo Cheteshwar Pujara by calling him “cheater” for not walking off despite clear nick

Umpiring standards in Indian domestic cricket has never been close to tolerable and the absence of technology for an event as big as the Ranji Trophy semi-finals brought the discussion back to the fore again. In the first inning, Cheteshwar Pujara was adjudged not out despite having a clear nick on an away-going delivery from Abhimanyu Mithun in the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Karnataka and Saurashtra. That incident didn’t go down well with the Bangalore crowd who were gathered at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru to support the home team, Karnataka.

It was a decision that Karnataka didn’t expect to be adjudged the way it was and Ronit More shared his frustration after the game as well while stating that they had moved on as Pujara couldn’t score big. However, their fans surely hadn’t forgiven the man for not walking off voluntarily.

In the Saurashtra’s second innings, as Pujara made his way onto the field in the sixth over just after the dismissal of Harvik Desai, crowd started booing the man who had a number of good innings at the same venue for India. People started chanting “Cheater, Cheater” in unison.