The Indian cricket crew’s Super 12 match towards Bangladesh produced some extremely debatable incidents. Though India received the match within the final over, the fast resumption of play after rain in addition to allegations of ‘faux fielding’ on Virat Kohli have drawn loads of consideration from followers, former cricketers, and pundits. As Bangladesh proceed to criticise umpiring within the match, former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has admitted that Kohli was responsible of ‘faux fielding’ and India earned a reprieve due to the umpires’ failure to identify the incident.

It was Bangladesh wicket-keeper batter Nurul Hasan who got here out all weapons blazing towards Virat Kohli and the Indian crew, suggesting his aspect ought to’ve been gifted 5 extra runs due to the India star’s motion.

Even Aakash Chopra feels Kohli’s motion would’ve seen India being slapped with a penalty if the umpires had witnessed what he did on the sector.

“Woh fake fielding tha, 100% tha, wo jo throw marne ka prayas kia wo agar umpire dekhte toh 5 run ki pentaly padti humko aur 5 run se hum match bhi jeete. (Yes that was 100% fake fielding because of the way Kohli attempted to throw the ball. If the umpires had seen him do that, we would’ve been slapped with a five-run penalty and we’ve won by five runs only.) So we escaped here but next time if someone does this then the umpires will have to be more careful. So are Bangladesh right? Yes, they are but nobody noticed it then so can’t do anything now,” the cricketer-turned-pundit stated in a video on his YouTube channel.

Fake fielding by @imVkohli pic.twitter.com/SyrhVuDAYd

— RAH (@fishingtechniqe) November 3, 2022

Not simply the 5-run penalty, Chopra additionally highlighted that the ball would’ve been referred to as ‘useless’ whereas the two runs that Bangladesh ran on that ball would even have been counted.

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“If that five penalty runs were given, the two that the Bangladesh pair ran, would have still have been counted, the ball would have been dead and Bangladesh would have gotten to choose who takes strike in the next ball,” Chopra revealed within the video.

The former India opener does really feel India benefitted from an umpiring failure within the match. But, he additionally asserted the must be extra cautious about such cases sooner or later.