“If you dive and your bat first hits the bottom [inside the crease] after which it [bounces up] as a result of you must dive full stretch, then it’s not out. [But] with Radha Yadav, we are able to see the blade of the bat up. It’s nowhere touching any a part of the bottom [inside] the crease [when the LED stumps light up]. Meaning she is out. The bat was by no means within the crease. That’s just about out.”
Appendix D of the WPL 2025 taking part in circumstances has this to say on what constitutes the wicket being damaged when there are LED stumps in play: “The place LED wickets are used, the second at which the wicket has been put down shall be deemed to be the primary body during which the LED lights are illuminated and subsequent frames present the bail completely faraway from the highest of the stumps.”
The Pandey incident occurred first ball for her, within the 18th over of Capitals’ chase. After stepping throughout the stumps and lacking a heave, she seemed to steal a bye however was despatched again by Niki Prasad. There was a direct-hit on the striker’s finish and, after the batters stole a bye on the deflection, the run-out enchantment was referred to the TV umpire. The replays confirmed that Pandey’s bat was on the road when the LED stumps first lit up. Nonetheless, the TV umpire rolled ahead and primarily based her not-out determination on the following body, during which the bails visibly got here off the groove, by which period Pandey’s bat was contained in the crease.
Two balls after that, one other mix-up meant Radha was diving to make her crease on the striker’s finish even whereas Prasad was additionally mid-pitch. The throw went to the striker’s finish – had it gone to the non-striker’s finish, Prasad would doubtless have been nicely quick. Wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia broke the stumps whilst Radha dived with the face of the bat up, with no a part of the bat seemingly touching the bottom past the crease line when the LED stumps lit up. Once more, the umpire appeared to ignore this and base her determination on when the bails visibly lifted off their grove, by which period Radha was protected. She was given not out and she or he hit a six subsequent ball, bringing the equation right down to 10 off 6.
With two wanted off the final two balls, Prasad holed out to deep midwicket, bringing Arundhati Reddy in to face the ultimate ball. She chipped it over cowl, the place it simply evaded Harmanpreet working backwards. With the batters going again for the second – the profitable run – Harmanpreet fired a flat throw to Bhatia, who broke the wicket as Reddy dived full-stretch. As soon as once more the body when the LED stumps lit up for the primary time confirmed Reddy’s bat on the road, however the third umpire checked out later frames and concluded “the batter has made her floor earlier than the wicket is totally dislodged”. The DC gamers celebrated, and the MI gamers did not appear to protest.
