Twitter reacts as Kumar Dharmasena denies Jason Roy a century in semi-final against Australia

BySrijith Gopal, SportsCafe Editor

07/11/2019

Jason Roy was in such good form and Kumar Dharmasena came up with a terrible call to give him out as the ball didn't even touch the gloves or bat. Roy went for the review but then the umpire told him that Jonny Bairstow had already used it. Twitterati were furious after Roy was unfairly given out.

Brief scores: Australia 223/10 in 49 overs (Steven Smith 85, Alex Carey 46; Chris Woakes 3-20, Adil Rashid 3-54) lost to England 226/2 in 32.1 overs (Jason Roy 85, Joe Root 49*; Mitchell Starc 1/70, Pat Cummins 1/34) by 8 wickets

Worst decision of this World Cup?

#ENGvAUS

Excellent innings played by Jason Roy.

Worst umpiring by Kumar Dharmasena.#AusvsEng
— Pradeep Kumar (@smgudduk2272) July 11, 2019

Got to feel for Jason Roy!

Jason Roy misses his well deserved century due to worst umpiring.. #ENGvAUS
— $α|_@® (@ZikriaSalar) July 11, 2019

Something that the umpire can do at the end of the match!

I can understand Jason Roy's reaction - I think anybody given out when they didn't touch it would feel rightly aggrieved and I hope he receives an apology from the umpires after the match! #bbccricket
— Adam Southwick 💙💛 (@adam_southwick) July 11, 2019

Was going to be a special ton for Jason Roy! :(

Oh dear.. jeez.. that's a blunder from Kumar Dharmasena! Jason Roy was going so fluently towards a match winning ton in a World Cup Semi-final.

Livid and rightly so! @JasonRoy20 @dharmasena_k #cwc19 @ICC #ENGvAUS
— Adityaa Prakash (@WkAdi25) July 11, 2019

Dharmasena looked puzzled after the appeal! Should've gone up if he wasn't sure!

Umpires are also humans and that's why technology was invented. Kumar dharmasena should have reviewed that to third umpire, it's semi final game. Very unfair for jason roy.

#AUSvENG pic.twitter.com/5fIhyFgFKh
— Safia Feroz (@safia_feroz) July 11, 2019

A robot umpire in the future?!

The decision against Jason Roy just shows how bad umpiring has been in this world cup. With such advance in technology, on field umpiring is irrelevant. @ICC should start think about replacing umpires with Robots(software).

Change is inevitable ! #ENGvAUS
— kishan mk (@im_kishanmk) July 11, 2019

Would love to see them in the IPL!

Jason Roy, Alex Carey, Van der Dussen, will bag heavy deals in 2020 IPL#CWC19
— Judgment Day Failures (@IManish10_) July 11, 2019

This is how the scoreboard should read!

Jason Roy (85) b Dharmasena #ENGvAUS #CWC19
— Inmate 4587 (@Aayan4910) July 11, 2019

ICC should seriously look into this!

Seriously @ICC what kind of umpiring is going

on????

It's a world cup 😴😌#AUSvENG #jasonroy #poorumpiring @englandcricket
— Prajwal Kulkarni (@Prajwal10003181) July 11, 2019

The tweet is gold!

I think we need to have a list of things that could fit between Jason Roy's bat and the ball. I'll start:

1. A large pack of sandpaper.#CWC19 @JasonRoy20 #ENGvAUS
— Peter Redman (@redmanpe) July 11, 2019

Justified reaction!

The criticism of Jason Roy's reaction is understandable but I think even the pope would have had a similar reaction. Bizarre decision. #bbccricket #engvaus
— Jon Evans (@jonevans91) July 11, 2019

Jofra Archer what a legend! xD