Sunday turned out to be nightmare for Team India as they confronted a 209-run defeat towards Australia on Day 5 of the World Test Championship remaining at The Oval. Chasing a whopping whole of 444, Team India wanted 280 runs to win on the ultimate with seven wickets in hand. However, Australia’s bowling assault utterly dominated the Rohit Sharma-led facet and bundled them out for 234. After the match ended, India skipper Rohit Sharma opened up on the controversial dismissal of opening batter Shubman gill on Scott Boland‘s supply on Day 4.

Pacer Boland discovered the sting of India’s opener’s bat and Cameron Green dove to his left in his most well-liked gully place to finish the catch. The resolution was despatched to the third umpire, the place TV umpire Richard Kettleborough declared Gill out.

Speaking in regards to the dismissal, Rohit said that Kettleborough reached the conclusion a bit rapidly and may have seen extra replays earlier than taking the decision. He additionally went on to say that there extra digital camera angles within the Indian Premier League than the WTC remaining.

“I just felt disappointed with – not enough. I mean, the third umpire should have seen a little more replays, a little more of, you know, how the catch has been held. I think it was three or four times he saw and he was convinced with it. It’s not about whether it was given out or not out, you need to have proper and clear information about anything. It’s just not about the catch, it can be about anything. That was, that is something that I was a little disappointed with – the decision was made quite quickly,” Rohit Sharma mentioned within the post-match press convention.

“When a catch like that has been taken, you need to be more than 100% sure because it’s a final and we were at that important stage of the game as well. So that was to me a little disappointing. And more camera angles should have been shown. There was only one or two camera angles that were shown. We’ve got more angles in IPL. We’ve got 10 different angles in IPL. I don’t know why in a world event like this, there was no ultra motion that was seen or any kind of zoomed image was seen. That is what I was a little disappointed with,” Rohit added.

India’s poor present on the ICC occasions continued as Australia received their maiden World Test Championship title with a crushing 209-run victory on the fifth day of the summit conflict.

This was India’s second defeat in successive WTC finals after shedding to New Zealand in 2021 within the inaugural version.

(With PTI Inputs)