Twitter terms Keaton Jennings' dismissal review as the worst ever

After rain played spoilsport in the opening day of the second Test between England and India at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, only 35.2 overs were bowled in the second day. However, those many overs turned out to be enough for the home team to bowl Virat Kohli’s men out for 107 runs. James Anderson ran through their lineup and finished with a five-wicket haul.

For the visitors, Ravichandran Ashwin top-scored with 29 runs. Kohli, who was deemed to play a crucial role, was nipped out by Chris Woakes, who returned after his quad and knee injury, to leave India in the shambles. Eventually, it required a couple of agricultural strokes from Mohammed Shami to take India over the 100-run-mark, which looked a tad unlikely at one stage.

England lose one review out of two

The Three Lions started their innings steadily and put on 28 runs in 7.3 overs to set the ball rolling for the hosts. From India’s perspective, they needed someone to put his hand up and give them the first breakthrough. Shami drew first blood for Kohli’s men with the wicket of South African-born batsman Keaton Jennings, who perished after scoring 11 runs from 22 balls.

The Indian speedster churned out a full-length delivery and hit Jennings on the pads. Aleem Dar, the on-field umpire, had no hesitation to raise his fingers. However, Jennings wasn’t convinced and he consulted with Alastair Cook, his opening partner. After a brief consultation, they resorted to using the Decision Review System (DRS) in a hope of getting the decision overturned.

Chris Gaffaney, the TV umpire, reviewed the decision after which he found the dismissal as completely legitimate. The decision wasn’t reversed and England lost one review out of their two. In the meantime, Twitter ridiculed England’s decision making and termed the referral as nothing less than disastrous.

Here is how Twitter reacted

Keaton Jennings had beer for breakfast. Clearly. #ENGvIND

— Aleix Gwilliam (@AleixGwilliam) August 11, 2018

Remarkable waste of a review there by Jennings. England 28 for 1.

— Lawrence Booth (@the_topspin) August 11, 2018

England reviews as poor as the Indian over rate🙈😳🙄🙈😡😳 #ENGvIND @SkyCricket #ENGvsIND

— Andy Phillips (@_AndyDP) August 11, 2018

Not only is Keaton Jennings not a test level batsman, he also makes bad decisions to review an umpires decission #ENGvsIND

— Snozzle Banger (@SnozzleBanger) August 11, 2018

What on earth is Jennings doing reviewing that? It was absolutely plumb and Cook should have told him so. #ENGvsIND

— Edward Wray (@edwray21) August 11, 2018

The sheer cheek of wasting a review on that, FFS. It was absolutely plumb you dickhead #ENGvsIND

— Bruno Di Gradi (@Bruno_Di_Gradi) August 11, 2018

Keaton Jennings – I haven't seen a review that bad since my book came out. #ENGvIND #ENGvsIND #keatonjennings

— Richard Luck (@RMGLUCK2017) August 11, 2018

What an awful use of the review system, as plum as you can get. Jennings isn’t good enough at all #ENGvsIND

— Alastair (@AlastairrrDay) August 11, 2018

So nice of Keaton Jennings to pay a tribute to Shane Watson…#GoodReview #ENGvIND #ENGvsIND #INDvENG

— CricBlog (@cric_blog) August 11, 2018

What an absolute waste of a review, what’s Cook thinking?.#ENGvsIND

— Danny Guy (@nice1bruv30) August 11, 2018

What an awful awful review. #ENGvsIND

— Adam Huxley (@HollywoodHux) August 11, 2018

What a waste of a review #ENGvsIND

— Suicidal Gooner (@ThatGuyJSR) August 11, 2018

Brilliant delivery from @MdShami11 as he traps Keaton Jennings on the pads & ball crashed into the stumps 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 . Stupid DRS Call from him . #ENGvIND #2ndTest #LordsTest

— Sharat Chandra Bhatt (@imsharatbhatt) August 11, 2018

Start delayed at North Mymms – in other news Keaton Jennings reviews a leg before that was so out it was ridiculous

— Mark Shepherd (@HillingdonPosh) August 11, 2018

Thanks Keaton Jennings for wasting an appeal…

— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) August 11, 2018

Keaton Jennings has obviously been educated at Stuart Broad's school of how to waste reviews #ENGvIND @JPHowcroft

— Steve Pye (@1980sSportsBlog) August 11, 2018

Alastair Cook's decision to tell Keaton Jennings to review that lbw decision might explain how he managed to miss those two Ashwin deliveries in the first Test! #bbccricket

— PitchedOutsideLeg (@Umpires_Call) August 11, 2018

Stuart Broad has been set a challenge by Keaton Jennings 🙂

— Mike Yates #48 (@CaptMikeYates) August 11, 2018

Thank you Cook for ensuring a waste review.

— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) August 11, 2018

England lose both wicket and review.#ENGvsIND #INDvsENG

— the storyTeller (@chemingineer) August 11, 2018

That Was Seriously Just A Waste Of Review By Keaton Jennings & Alastair Cook ! 😂
Eng 28-1 #ENGvIND @englandcricket @BCCI

— MS Dhoni (@msdhoniaddicted) August 11, 2018