Cricket: Bavuma survives after ‘catch’ decision

CAPE TOWN: For a second time in unbroken Test matches, a South African batsman survived when an on-field preference was overturned by a radio umpire, this time on a second morning of a second Test opposite Pakistan during Newlands on Friday.

Temba Bavuma edged Mohammad Abbas low to Azhar Ali during initial slip. On-field umpires Bruce Oxenford and Joel Wilson conferred and asked radio referee Sunderam Ravi to check either a round strike a belligerent before a purify locate was completed. Oxenford gave a “soft” vigilance of “out”.

After looking during countless replays Ravi overturned a on-field decision.

Bavuma was on 3 and South Africa were 156 for 4 in respond to Pakistan’s initial innings sum of 177.

The occurrence was identical to one during a vicious theatre of a initial Test in Centurion, also involving Azhar Ali, when Dean Elgar survived opposite Shaeen Afridi after Wilson topsy-turvy a on-field decision.

A accord of radio commentators was that there was no decisive justification to clear Wilson’s decision.

On Thursday, though, a footage suggested a round had overwhelmed a ground.

In Centurion, Pakistan manager Mickey Arthur stormed into a compare referee’s bureau and berated Wilson, heading to an central warning and a excellent of a demerit point. On Thursday he shook his conduct though stayed in his chair on a players’ balcony. -AFP

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