With each groups completing with an equivalent rating of 225, the sequence concluded in a 1-1 draw.
However, Harmanpreet discovered herself in the course of controversy when she was once given out leg-before off a Nahida Akter supply whilst making an attempt a sweep.
She vehemently claimed that the ball had struck her bat earlier than hitting the pads. In her obvious frustration, she broke the stumps and brazenly criticized the umpiring as “pathetic” all the way through the post-match presentation.
“What did you think?” Mandhana shot again when puzzled concerning the umpiring.
“In any match, sometimes it happens that you are not really happy with the kind of… especially when there is no DRS in the series this time,” Mandhana stated.
“We expect a little better level – I would term it in a better way that, better level of umpiring in terms of some decisions, because it was very evident in some decisions, there was not even a second thought given if the ball hit the pad. Not even one-second thought was given and the finger went up,” Mandhana’s suppressed her anger with a extra balanced answer.
Mandhana was hoping having impartial umpires will be the manner ahead.
“I am sure that ICC, the BCB and the BCCI will definitely have a discussion on that, maybe we have a neutral umpiring system so that we do not sit here having this discussion, maybe we can focus on cricket and cricket-oriented questions,” she stated.
Talking about Kaur’s movements being opposite to ‘Spirit of Cricket’, Mandhana stated that will probably be a dialogue for any other day.
“What happened in the middle is part and parcel of the game. We have seen these incidents so much in the past in men’s cricket,” Mandhana stated in defence.
“When you play for India, you want to win the match. It happens in the heat of the moment, but I think she was not really happy with the decision given (against her). She was given out and she felt that she was not out,” she added.
“When you want to win so badly, I think the spirit of the game and all those things, definitely we can talk about later. But knowing Harman as a person, knowing how much she wants to win for India, from the spirit of the game (perspective) that it is (wrong), but yeah, when you really want that ‘W’ on the board for India, these things happen.”
(With PTI inputs)