UP Warriorz Ladies’s (UPW) captain Alyssa Healy was surprised when her teammate Chamari Athapaththu was controversially dismissed leg earlier than wicket (lbw) in opposition to the Royal Challengers Bangalore within the WPL 2024. The incident occurred in the course of the eighth over of the UPW run chase. Georgia Wareham bowled a tossed-up ball that dropped in entrance of Athapaththu, who missed the sweep shot and was smacked on the entrance leg.
The on-field umpire dominated it not out earlier than RCBW captain Smriti Mandhana disputed the judgment. The ball monitoring revealed that no bat was concerned, and the ball would have hit the stumps. The ball was pitched on the leg, and Hawkeye confirmed that it will strike the stump. Wareham bowled a leg-spinner, and the ball-tracking expertise surprised Athapaththu and Healy. In accordance with the ball monitoring system, the ball was pitched in line and would have hit the center of the stump.
Athapaththu could not consider what she had seen, however she was pressured to stroll again to the pavilion. What perplexed the Warriorz was that the ball, after being pitched on the leg, travelled within the reverse course of a conventional leg spinner, hanging the center stump. The DRS confirmed that the ball was a googly (and never a leg spinner) and was hitting the stumps. This left Athapaththu and Healy livid and the Australian was seen shouting on the digicam ‘No Manner, No Manner’ on the high of her voice.
After this incident within the seventh over, UP misplaced a collection of wickets at fast intervals and finally misplaced the match by 23 runs. If not for Deepti Sharma’s rearguard motion (33 off 22), UP wouldn’t have come near their 178-run complete. RCB returned to successful methods after back-to-back losses because the Smriti Mandhana-led facet received their final home-leg match in opposition to UP Warriorz by 23 runs. Smriti Mandhana top-scored with 80, whereas Ellyse Perry contributed 58 as Royal Challengers Bangalore posted a mammoth goal of 198 for 3 in 20 overs in opposition to UP Warriorz.
