India vs Australia: Jitesh Sharma's Powerful Shot Hits Umpire. What Followed Has Gone Viral

A somewhat unique incident unfolded during the fourth T20I encounter between India and Australia in Raipur when a powerful shot from Jitesh Sharma hit umpire Anantha Padmanabhan. During the 15th over of the Indian innings, Jitesh slammed a delivery from Chris Green straight back at the bowler and it was so quick that the umpire had no time to dodge it. The bowler was not able to take the catch and the ball crashed straight on Padmanabhan's arm. Although it was the umpire who suffered a slight injury, he was quick to apologise to the batter as the ball did not go for a boundary due to his accidental interference.

The umpire eventually got hit n tried to catch ball to save himself on the boundary shot from Jitesh.. he then apologized to him #IPL2024 #BCCI #INDvsAUS #INDvsSA #RinkuSingh #SAvIND #Animal #T20Is #Virat #Rashmika #DeepakChahar #Shreyas pic.twitter.com/vcxz7iwpbU

Australia skipper Matthew Wade won the toss and elected to field first against India on Friday as they look to level the T20I series without most of their ODI World Cup stars.

The tourists, who trail the five-match series 2-1, bounced back from two losses to win their previous match and now eye drawing level at 2-2 in Raipur.

Glenn Maxwell, who hit a match-winning 104 not out on Tuesday, flew back home along with many of the recent ODI World Cup-winning players including Marcus Stoinis.

Steve Smith and Adam Zampa had already left the series midway after Australia, who beat hosts India to lift the ODI World Cup on November 19, began with defeats.

Travis Head remains the only player from the World Cup-winning team in the Australian side.

Shreyas Iyer returns to a second-string India team, led by Suryakumar Yadav, after he opted out of the first three