What Virat Kohli did today was not wrong!
The India vs South Africa series has gone about it's business mostly worry free till now when it came to a pretty tense moment in the fourth innings of the series decider where the priced wicket of Dean Elgar came under scrutiny at a very crucial time of the game. That moment could have very well changed the course of the game in favor of South Africa.
To get a little bit of background about this story, you can read the cricinfo article here
Basically the jist of the matter is that, Ashwin bowled to Elgar and he was trapped LBW who was given out by Marais Erasmus who is arguably one of the best umpires in the world. Erasmus also has one of the best accuracy in the world probably as good as Aleem Dar when it comes to umpiring in todays day and age.
Elgar reviewed it right away and much to everyones (other than South Africans) shock, the decision came back as not out citing the ball was going over the stumps.
Erasmus said it was impossible that the ball was not hitting the stumps. The official reason which was given was that the wicket had a lot of bounce so that was factored into the decision but the Indian team knows that it was not true.
Captain Virat Kohli, vice captain KL Rahul and the bowler Ashwin all of them hurled some comments on the stump mic and very rightly so.
The South Africans no doubt did a good job in exposing the ball tampering saga of Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft but now got caught red handed doing the same in their own backyard.
This is a disgrace in the cricketing world of the highest order and I firmly believe what Kohli did was not wrong even though Daryl Cullinan feels like Kohli is using his powers too much.
Let me know what you think.
