SA vs AUS | Twitter unimpressed as Pat Cummins burns out all DRS reviews in desperate bid for breakthroughs

‌With only 69 runs between South Africa and the ICC World Test Championship title at Lord’s, Australian skipper Pat Cummins tried all possible ways to stop the Proteas from getting there easily. After bowling a beauty to dismiss his South African counterpart Temba Bavuma and break the overnight 143-run association between him and centurion Aiden Markram, who added only four runs in the morning, Cummins went to his DRS reviews as a last resort.

In the fourth ball of the 65th over, Cummins bowled an inswinger that dipped into new batter Tristan Stubbs after pitching on a length around middle stump. But the swing ensured that the impact of the contact was just outside leg with the ball comfortably gliding down to miss the leg stump by miles.

He was not done as he used his second review six overs later again out of optimism with Mitchell Starc being the bowler this time. With the left-arm pacer banging one short around leg stump, Stubbs tried to pull the delivery but missed it completely as the ball went to wicketkeeper Alex Carey. With Starc unsure of any nick, it was Carey who showed interest and Cummins was all for it as they wasted a second review with the ball passing the glove and not making any contact with the batter.

And with the target coming to 35 and South Africa having six wickets in the bank, it needed something of a miracle to stop them from stopping their wretched run in ICC events. And Cummins again was in the thick of the action as he chose to take his third and final review in the 73rd over. Starc once again bowled short with David Bedingham going for the pull and missing it to get hit on top of his pads. But in real time itself, the ball looked well past the off stump and replays confirmed that the impact was way outside the timber as Pat Cummins smiled sheepishly.

Twitter was unimpressed with the Aussie skipper who was trying to make up for Australia's blunder in not reviewing Nathan Lyon’s LBW appeal in an Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019 that they lost by one wicket.

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