Joe Root bats for DRS in T20Is
Joe Root has called for the use of DRS in the game's shortest format as well after being wrongly given out lbw in the final over of England's run chase against India in the second T20I in Nagpur. Root refrained from blaming the on-field official for the wrong decision, saying mistakes happen.
Root's dismissal titled the outcome in India’s
"With bat or ball, if you miss your yorker you go out of the park - it's just as important to get the right decisions from the umpires as well. It would be quite nice to see maybe even one review for either side. But we are where are with it at the moment.
"I'd like to think it will get raised anyway by a few different members but I'm not an official of the sport, I don't know what's best for the game. I'm only offering an opinion. I can't speak on behalf of the rest of world cricket or even for the rest of my team. It's just something I believe in and I'm sure there are others out there who will agree with me."
CS Shamsuddin and Anil Chaudhary, the on-field umpires in Nagpur, will be officiating in the third and final T20I at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
“I have no problem with him (Shamsuddin) umpiring any of our future games. As a player, you’re going to make mistakes and as an umpire, you’re going to do exactly the same. I don’t think it would be right to single him out as a person at fault for that game," Root said.
“Umpires are under as much scrutiny as we are, and if you make consistent mistakes you’ll get found out and you might lose your international status. I don’t think that’s for us to worry about as players, and we know that the best umpires available are going to be standing in our games so it would be wrong to make him feel uncomfortable. He should be able to go and do his job as we are doing ours and he’ll be under enough external pressure after what happened the other night anyway.
“There were things in the game that we could have done better. We could have chased tighter and closer so we didn’t have so much to do at the back end. So it would be wrong to single him out and have a personal go at him but if that was in a major tournament – in final or a semifinal – from a decision that goes against us, we’re going to feel bitterly disappointed. It wouldn’t be fair to him as the umpire standing in the game to have to deal with the aftermath. I’m just trying to think of the best solution and I don’t want it to overshadow the way India bowled at the end. Bumrah deserves a lot of credit for the way he held his nerve at the back there.”
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