Massoud felt that the images Hawkeye produced did not match the reality of what had happened after that delivery. After the game was over, Masood said, “It’s easy.” “It was an outswinger. If you look at the ball I was beaten, it went quite a distance. I was beaten on the outside edge, and it was shown as an inswinger. To be honest, I was Was astonished.”
Masood, who had batted more or less randomly for more than six hours over two days for his innings, looked largely untroubled until that ball on the fourth morning. Mafaka bowled it to the left-armer Masood on a length and got the ball straight to the outside edge to keep it a touch short as Masood attempted to defend it, squared it and hit it. Attacked. Back pad.
On review, Hawkeye considered that the ball had hit Masood in line with the off stump, and showed no significant deviation away from the stump that would have saved it. “To the naked eye, you could see it felt like it was outside the line as well. I just thought it was a different picture. I didn’t hit the ball where Hawkeye was showing it to be hit. I There was more injury there, it looks like on the outside of the leg rather than the inside. It’s not an inswinger and the umpire thought so, and that’s all I can say.”
When the pictures appeared on the screen, Masood made no attempt to hide his displeasure. He stood there for a long time and kept making gestures of disagreement. When he turned to leave, he still had a look of anger and frustration on his face. As he moved towards the pavilion, he once again gestured outwards with his hands to mimic the movement of the ball.
Masood said, “It’s up to the administrators to see whether it’s a fair decision or not, but I certainly felt the technology didn’t reflect what that ball was.”
Pakistan’s decision of LBW on Mafaka before lunch was correct. When the ball turned towards the leg stump, Saud Shakeel was hit on the pads and on that occasion too Menon had declared it not out. South Africa did not review, with Hawkeye indicating that the ball could have hit leg stump.










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