There was a ruckus in the Oval Test! The umpire Kumar Dharmasena, who was caught pointing to the British in Live Match; Watch video
Kumar Dharmasena Controversy Video: Between India and England Test series The fifth and last match of (Eng vs Ind 5th Test) is being played at The Oval Cricket Stadium in London where Sri Lankan Umpire Kumar Dharmasena (Kumar Dharmasena) concluded a disputed incident on the first day of the match. The video of this incident is now becoming increasingly viral on social media.
Actually, this whole incident took place in the 13th over of Team India’s inning. For England, these overs came to tongue, who hit Sai Sudarshan on the ground by hitting a brilliant yorker. The ball collided with the pad after hitting Sai’s bat, on which the English bowler made a strong appeal.
Umpire Kumar Dharmasena knew that the batsman is not LBW out here, in such a situation, he told the bowler Josh Tung, pointing with his hands that he was on the bat before the ball was hit on Sai’s pad. Significantly, all this happened when DRS was on time on, which is against the rules. If the English team had taken DRS here, then Sai would not have been out and a DRS of England would have deteriorated.
However, the English team survived due to the action of Kumar Dharmasena and saved his DRS from deteriorating. This is the reason why the video of this incident is becoming viral on social media, on which Indian fans are reacting to Kumar Dharmasena.
Experts react as #Kumardharmasena Makes a lightning-quick lbw call on #Saisudharsan
Did He Judge it too quickly or just perfectly?#ENGVIND 👉 5th Test, Day 1 | Live now on jiohotstar 👉 pic.twitter.com/ljukfv5own
– Star Sports (@StarsportsIndia) July 31, 2025
Talk about The Oval Test, then the first day’s game here was very affected due to rain. In this match, English Captain Oli Pope won the toss and selected the first bowling, after which Team India batting 64 overs till the end of the day’s play and scored 204 runs losing 6 wickets.
Karun Nair was the most successful batsman for Team India to hit an unbeaten 52 runs on 98 balls, while for England, Gas Etkinson and Josh Tung were the most successful bowlers who took 2-2 wickets. Now in the second day’s game, the pair of Karun Nair (52) and Washington Sundar (19) will carry forward the Indian innings.
