VIDEO | Dinesh Karthik left fuming as umpire gives “strangest overthrow decision ever”

On the first ball of the sixth over, Prasidh Krishna managed to take the ball into Mayank Agarwal against which the Karnataka batsman moved on his backfoot and played towards cover for a single. Nitish Rana was alert at cover and after collecting the ball, he was just passing it to Andre Russell who was there at mid-wicket. While everything thought that was it, the umpire suddenly stopped the game to check something and it was also seen that Karthik and Robin Uthappa were having some discussion with both the umpires.

Everyone seemed to have been confused by that and the commentators also didn’t have an idea of what was happening. Ravichandran Ashwin also came from the dugout to check the proceedings on the sideline. Making it more confusing for the spectators, the umpire suddenly signalled four and everyone was left wondering what was that for. Dinesh Karthik and Russell were not happy and the skipper was seen explaining something to the umpire when the TV production decided to showcase the original footage.

So, when Rana threw the ball to Russell, the all rounder lost the ball in the lights. The ball ultimately ran away to the fence for the four and although KKR didn’t have any interest in throwing the ball, the law book was not kind to them. Karthik was literally pleading the umpire to withdraw the four, but to no avail.