The Indian team seemed like missing the rub of the green in the third and final T20I as Australian opener Matthew Wade, after getting the ‘benefit of doubt’ LBW decision in his favour early on, got another decision in his favour as Team India skipper Virat Kohli was caught napping while making the DRS call.
Kohli made the call for a review when the 15-second time given to the bowling team to ask for a referral had run out and even after being plumb lbw, the umpire called it not out. However, the umpire came to this conclusion only after batsman Wade made a protest to the on-field umpires that the Indian team took the review only after the replay had been played on the big screen in the ground.
In another instance, Glenn Maxwell was caught off Yuzvendra Chahal's bowling when his personal score was 19. However, he was given a life as the delivery turned out to be a no-ball, which was picked by the third umpire after the catch had been completed. Maxwell was given yet another life thanks to being dropped by Deepak Chahar close to the boundary line.
As it turned out, these setbacks did turn out to be costly for India, but not much as feared since both the batsmen were out eventually. While Wade got out leg before wicket to Shardul Thakur, Maxwell was cleaned up by a Natarajan yorker off the first ball of the last over.
While Wade scored 80, Maxwell was out for 54 of 36 balls. In total, Australia scored 186 runs in their 20 overs, with just 11 coming from the last over.
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