“When you dive and your bat first hits the ground [inside the crease] and then it [bounces up] because you have to dive full stretch, then it is not out. [But] with Radha Yadav, we can see the blade of the bat up. It is nowhere touching any part of the ground [inside] the crease [when the LED stumps light up]. That means she is out. The bat was never in the crease. That is pretty much out.”
Appendix D of the WPL 2025 taking part in statuses has this to mention on what constitutes the wicket being damaged when there are LED stumps in play games: “Where LED wickets are used, the moment at which the wicket has been put down shall be deemed to be the first frame in which the LED lights are illuminated and subsequent frames show the bail permanently removed from the top of the stumps.”
The Pandey incident took place first ball for her, within the 18th over of Capitals’ chase. Nearest stepping around the stumps and lacking a heave, she seemed to thieve a bye however used to be despatched again by way of Niki Prasad. There used to be a direct-hit on the striker’s finish and, upcoming the batters stole a bye at the deflection, the run-out attraction used to be referred to the TV umpire. The replays confirmed that Pandey’s bat used to be at the form when the LED stumps first lit up. On the other hand, the TV umpire rolled ahead and based totally her not-out determination at the then body, through which the bails got here off the groove, through which day Pandey’s bat used to be throughout the fold.
Two balls upcoming that, every other mix-up intended Radha used to be diving to manufacture her fold on the striker’s finish even pace Prasad used to be additionally mid-pitch. The throw going to the striker’s finish – had it long gone to the non-striker’s finish, Prasad would most likely were smartly trim. Wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia destitute the stumps whilst Radha dived with the face of the bat up, with out a a part of the bat apparently touching the farmland past the fold form when the LED stumps lit up. Once more, the umpire perceived to overlook this and bottom her determination on when the bails lifted off their grove, however which day Radha used to be guard. She used to be given no longer out and she or he collision a six then ball, bringing the equation ailing to ten off 6.
With two wanted off the extreme two balls, Prasad holed out to deep midwicket, bringing Arundhati Reddy in to stand the general ball. She chipped it over preserve, the place it simply kept away from Harmanpreet working backwards. With the batters going again for the second one – the successful run – Harmanpreet fired a flat throw to Bhatia, who destitute the wicket as Reddy dived full-stretch. As soon as once more the body when the LED stumps lit up for the primary day confirmed Reddy’s bat at the form, however the 3rd umpire checked out next frames and concluded “the batter has made her ground before the wicket is completely dislodged”. The DC gamers celebrated, and the MI gamers didn’t appear to protest.