India lost the third T20 International by 12 races and one of the reasons could be attributed to the fact that Wade, who could have won the stage before T Natarajan with a score of 50, took a breather and added 30 more races.
“That lbw was weird because we were still discussing whether the ball was going down and within the 15 second time, they showed the replay on the screen,” Kohli said at the post-game conference on Tuesday.
“We decided to go to the review, but the referee said they already showed the replay on the screen,” he said.
In fact, if the review had taken place, television replays showed that the referee would have been forced to reverse his decision.
“I had a talk with Rod (Tucker, the referee) and I said to him: ‘what do we do in this situation?
He made it clear that the leadership of the Indian team had made clear its discontent with the authorities, saying that a mistake of this magnitude in an international match is unacceptable.
“I thought from a management perspective, you have to get the message across that this cannot be done at the highest level because in a very important game, it can be very expensive,” Kohli said.
“It was a little missed by the guys on TV upstairs and I’m sure it won’t be repeated,” he added.
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