Ishan Kishan attempted a cheeky, delayed stumping of Jason Holder in the final session on Day three of the first West Indies-India Test in Dominica, only for the umpire to turn down the appeal.
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On the last ball of the 33rd over of the West Indies’ second innings, Holder missed a cut shot off a short and wide Ravindra Jadeja delivery. After standing inside his crease for some time, Holder started to move his back leg, presumably to walk out of the crease as the over was completed.
Kishan, who is known for his cheekiness as a wicketkeeper, held the ball in his hand and was waiting intently for Holder to move his back leg so that he could whip the bails off. As soon as Holder started to move, Kishan did exactly that and appealed for a stumping.
However, the square leg umpire turned him down as he had signalled ‘over’, which meant there was no need to refer it to the TV umpire.
This was not the first time that Kishan did something like this in the second innings. A couple of overs back, when Holder had missed a ripping turner by Jadeja, Kishan had waited for him to lift his back foot before breaking the stumps.
The on-field umpire had to go to the TV umpire for a referral on that occasion, but replays showed that Holder’s foot was lifted off the ground a moment after Kishan broke the stumps, meaning he was saved.
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These incidents come against the backdrop of the infamous stumping of Jonny Bairstow by Alex Carey in the Lord’s Test of the ongoing Ashes series that divided the cricket community.
While Carey was standing back and threw the ball from a distance, almost immediately after receiving it, Kishan was right up to the stumps, keeping to the bowling of Jadeja, and waited before taking the bails off.
The furore over the stumping by Carey had led to the resurfacing of an old video of Bairstow affecting a similarly delayed stumping in a county game nearly a decade back.
Curtly Ambrose, who was on air during Kishan’s second such stumping attempt, was not pleased with the proceedings as he compared the situation with his playing days: “Back in the day when we played, and you left alone a delivery at the end of the over or in the middle of the over, and the keeper collected the ball, right away you could move down to your partner and they would normally throw it to the slip cordon or something, it was okay. Nowadays you’ve got to stand there for a minute to make sure.”
