Kumar Dharmasena goofs up during the 2nd ODI

Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena is in the news following a poor umpiring decision during the limited over’s game between India and England. The 2nd ODI between the two sides turned out to be an eventful contest as both the sides scored well over 350runs, producing a run feast with India winning the game by just 15 runs.

During the 47th over of the England innings when Liam Plunkett decided to make use of the DRS after being given out lbw on-field off the bowling of Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Dharmasena, the third umpire found himself in hot waters. As the asking rate was going sky high, the batsman walked across and tried to tip the ball but ended up completely missing it.

The umpire ruled him out after a good look but the batsman wasn’t convinced and he immediately reviewed as he felt he had walked across and the impact was made outside off stump. The blunder took place when Dharamsena asked the on-field umpire to stick with the original decision- that is out.

During the referral, he said “(when Ultra edge showed up) Nothing there. Just roll back for me to confirm again. I can see clear daylight between the bat and the ball and you can go to ball tracking when it is ready.”

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To Dharmsena’s relief, the decision was finally changed and the correct call was made. Plunkett remained unbeaten on 26 off 17 balls, courtesy five boundaries. For India, it was Ravi Ashwin who picked up figures of 3/65, whereas Bhuvneshwar Kumar proved to be pretty economical, going for only 63 runs in his quota of 10 overs, and picking the lone wicket of dangerous Moeen Ali.

A.K Choudhury (India) and RSA Palliyaguruge (Sri Lanka) were the two on-field umpires. England had earlier won the toss and asked India to bat first on a pitch that looked high scoring.

Twitterati enjoyed his blunder and there were tons of tweets fired in:

No mate. That is not out. Shocking on field and off field umpiring

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) January 19, 2017

"I can see clear daylight between bat and ball." — Kumar Dharmasena at 9.20 PM.#INDvENG

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42) January 19, 2017

Dharmasena just tried to cheekily win a few Indian fans there. Dumb. Kick him out @ICC

— P₹akash $inha ?? (@Predicto_Praky) January 19, 2017

Kumar Dharmasena can mess up DRS even when he is not on the field. ??? #INDvENG

— Aditya (@forwardshortleg) January 19, 2017

Kumar Dharmasena at it again! Absolute howler as a TV umpire is unacceptable. Engendhu da pudichanga Ivana? ???

— Srini Mama ? (@SriniMama16) January 19, 2017

Dharmasena would have enjoyed being on the other end of a wrong review… Anil Chaudhary meanwhile is continuing #RANJITROPHYFINAL form…

— Saurabh Somani (@saurabh_42) January 19, 2017

Kumara Dharmasena is just going Nonsense. #INDvENG #DRS #Umpire

— CricketCasanova Buzz (@cricketsourabh) January 19, 2017

Dharmasena made a booboo with 'original DRS decision' during the Test series too no?! Mumbai was it? #IndvEng

— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula) January 19, 2017

Kumar Dharamasena. You beauty. Forgot the lbw rule.

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) January 19, 2017

Is Dharmasena mad? How can you stay with original decision when impact is outside off. Pathetic Lankan!!!!! #INDvENG

— P₹akash $inha ?? (@Predicto_Praky) January 19, 2017

Hahaha. Can't stop Dharmasena from fucking it up. #IndvEng

— cricBC (@cricBC) January 19, 2017

I know cricket rules better than Dharmasena.

— Sahil Rizwan (@SahilRiz) January 19, 2017

Umpire Dharmasena is on some high quality charas ??? #INDvENG

— Abbas Haider (@abbas_haiderr) January 19, 2017

Dharmasena can see daylight between bat and ball in Night match. ~
God Level?

— Kuptaan ?? (@Kuptaan) January 19, 2017

#IndvsEng@VVSLaxman281 : Dharmasena made a good decision today. @virendersehwag : But Anil Choudhary fails to, sangati ka asar ?

— Atul (@Atul_1023) January 19, 2017

Kumar Dharmasena – In the end, Vasan Eye Care is the ultimate winner

— Ravi Maestri (@ravimaestri) January 19, 2017

Impact outside the off stump & Dharmasena says you can stay with your original decision! Smh #INDvENG

— Manivannan (@manivannan14889) January 19, 2017

Idiots the umpires in this match ! Dharmasena highly over rated and this Anil guy is not the cut 😉 #INDvENG

— Leena aziz (@leenacricket) January 19, 2017