da fazobetai： Railways cricket team manager today lodged a protest with the matchreferee against the “controversial” umpiring decisions on the finalday of the Ranji Trophy final played at Baroda
24-Apr-2001Railways cricket team manager today lodged a protest with the matchreferee against the “controversial” umpiring decisions on the finalday of the Ranji Trophy final played at Baroda. “Some of the decisionstaken by umpires during the final were clearly biased againstRailways,” Kamlesh Gupta told PTI on phone from Baroda.Gupta said he had yesterday drawn the attention of the match refereetowards a couple of wide ball decisions given by umpires. “I drew theattention of the referee and the matter was amicably solved and afterthat no controversial decisions regarding wide balls were given. Guptasaid he was today forced to voice his protest in writing after thecontroversial dismissals of Yere Goud, Shreyas Khanolkar and MuraliKartik in Railways second innings. “All the three – Goud, Khanolkarand Kartik were definitely not out. We watched the TV replays and areconvinced they were not out,” Gupta said, adding, “I am not sure evenwhether Kulamani Parida was out”.Gupta said he had urged the referee to intervene much before Railwaysconceded the 21-run defeat to the hosts. However, Gupta also conceded”the referee could not do so in keeping with the code of conduct whichsays the game can not be interrupted in between.”While Goud was given out, caught behind by Nayan Mongia off ZaheerKhan, Khanolkar was declared leg before wicket for deliberatelypadding the ball. Tempers frayed when Kartik was given caught behindoff Ajit Bhoite. Kartik gestured angrily at the umpire beforereturning to the pavilion.