"Zero Confidence...": Pat Cummins Gives Clear Take On Yashasvi Jaiswal's Ultra Edge Row
Australian skipper Pat Cummins on Monday said it's tough to repose full “confidence” on ultra-edge technology but maintained that India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal had clearly edged him behind the stumps to Alex Carey. Jaiswal was batting on 84 when he tried to pull a short-pitched delivery from Cummins, only to be collected by Carey. As on-field umpire Joel Wilson did not uphold the appeal, it was referred to the third umpire. Ibne Saikat, third umpire from Bangladesh, however, overruled the on-field decision despite the Snicko not showing any spike.
He relied on the clear visual evidence of the ball hitting the bat logo to give Jaiswal out, paving way for heated debates across the spectrum.
Saikat's decision ended Jaiswal's 310-minute vigil, and otherwise, the left-hander would have remained in the middle to prolong India's fight to save the fourth Test, which the Aussies won by 184 runs.
But Cummins was clear in his thoughts.
“Oh look, I think it was just clear that he hit it. We heard a noise, saw a deviation, so it was absolutely certain that he hit it. As soon as we referred it, you could see him drop his head and basically acknowledge that he hit it. On the screen you can see he hit it,” Cummins said at the post-match press conference.
However, Cummins, expressed his displeasure at the quality of technology being used for ultra edge in detecting the spikes.
“Ultra-edge… I don't think anyone has complete confidence in it and didn't really show much but fortunately there's enough other evidence to show it was clearly out,” he added.
The 31-year-old, on the match-front, reckoned that Australia's bowling was near perfect in the first session, where they got rid of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul to reduce India to