Plays of the day: Nasir's funny gesture with umpire Llong and Bangladesh's dropped chances
Publish : 06 Sep 2017, 21:09
Nasir’s funny gesture with umpire LlongBangladesh all-rounder Nasir Hossain made a comical move by exhibiting the “out” signal in front of on-field umpire Nigel Llong which created quite a buzz on social media. The incident happened in the 109th over. Off-spinner Mehedi Hasan Miraz bowled to tail-ender Pat Cummins outside off and the batsman in question offered no shot. The bowler appealed but umpire gave it not out. Captain Mushfiqur Rahim reviewed the decision and eventually it got overturned. But the funny part is, when Llong was showing the overturned decision, Nasir, standing just beside the umpire, copied him and produced the out signal. The funny gesture from Nasir amused the local crowd and a few moments later, it went viral.
[arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCjf8Qc-yb0&feature=share" /]Dropped chances hurt Bangladesh progressBangladesh’s fielding effort was not upto the mark on day two and the below-par catching continued on day three as well. A few catches were put down on day three which should have been taken. The course of the Australian innings could have changed if those chances were taken. The first dropped catch came in the 84th over. Miraz put down a sitter at third slip. All-rounder Glenn Maxwell was the batsman and he was batting on 10 off 32 balls then. He went on to score 38 off 98 balls. The struggling Soumya Sarkar missed a tough chance of vice captain David Warner in the 87th over. Miraz also missed a caught and bowled chance, that of all-rounder Hilton Cartwright, in the 91st over, which ultimately injured him for a short time as the ball hit his rib cage. Soumya again dropped a dolly at first slip in the first ball of the 117th over. The lucky batter was lower-order batsman Ashton Agar and the unlucky bowler was all-rounder Shakib al Hasan. Shakib eventually cleaned up Agar five balls later. But such kind of misses by a first slip fielder looked shocking.