Ishaan Kishan’s actions raised a big controversy: Did he really break cricket law?

Delhi: This Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season Sunrisers Hyderabad -Mumbai Indians match played the final in the last season, the Hyderabad team had more shocking more than another defeat of the Hyderabad team. This was that the strange dismissal of Ishaan Kishan of the Hyderabad team and what happened will always be discussed not only in the IPL, cricket law. This is an anecdote that did not increase the reputation of any of the batsmen, the captain of the Mumbai team and the field umpire.

Let’s first see what happened? At the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, the score was 9–1 at the start of the third over in this match and Khabbu batsman Ishaan Kishan was at the crease to play the ball of Pesar Deepak Chahar. The first ball was going towards the leg side, tried to play the shot. The ball went to wicketkeeper Ryan Ricelton and neither Ryan nor the bowler appealed for a catch behind the wicket. At that moment umpire Vinod Seshan was ready for wide calls for the ball.

The spectacle happened after this. Kishan started going out of the ground. It was clearly visible that he had considered himself a ‘out’ and seeing this, the umpire also called Kishan out. The matter did not end here. When I saw the replay, it was clear that the ball had not touched the bat, so there was no point in the decision of the out. So neither the ball hit the bat, there was no spike on the ultrarass, nor the appeal and the umpires were close to giving it a wide, so how was the batsman out? The interesting thing is that Kishan himself indicated that the ball went to the wicketkeeper’s gloves touching the edge of his bat. On this, Hardik Pandya appealed to half a heart and patted Kishan’s helmet and shoulders returning to the pavilion for his ‘truth’. The truth is that they were not out.

Show it as Kishan’s ‘right game spirit’, call it a decision? This is not the case because the ball was not on the bat, so where did the issue of showing the spirit of the game came from? It is a simple matter (and only kishan can answer it) that what was the hurry to give them themselves ‘out’? Commentator Virender Sehwag rightly said that this was the moment when Kishan’s mind stopped working and he made such a big mistake in this ‘brain fed’. In this innings, not only the team was in dire need of a big score from Kishan, Kishan himself also needed a good score. He has been struggling for one run since 100 in the first innings this season (33 runs in the next 7 innings at an average of 5.5). SRH in points table is now at number 8 and only thanks to better net run rates on Chennai Super Kings. Without any DRS review, Kishan’s decision to dismiss, it set fire on social media. If someone called it negligent, then those connecting it with ‘match fixing’ were no less. Commentator Harsha Bhogle wrote, ‘I have never seen a batsman dismissing myself in this way before.’

All this is also a new question on the test of cricket law. The explanation of the umpire’s decision to go out out of the wide call is that when he saw Kishan going out, he changed his intention and raised his finger. Even then the umpire will be accused of giving out the batsman without appeal. Similarly, Hardik praised Kishan for the right ‘cricket spirit’, but in fact he himself is guilty of not showing the same ‘right feeling’. When Repley and Ultra Edge came to know that there was no spike, they returned to misunderstanding by showing a game of sports, calling the batsman back. The impact of Kishan’s mistake on the TV screen was seen and he was angry in an angry dressing room. Moreover, the umpire also made a mistake and did not call the batsman back. It is written in MCC Law 31.7 If the umpires feel that the batsman has returned to ‘misunderstanding’, then they can intervene. In such a situation, the umpire will give the dead ball call and will call the batsman back.

So in this way there was such a strange spectacle in Hyderabad that could save the umpire from the batsman.

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