Baffled By Hawkeye’s Trajectory After lbw Dismissal, Shan Masood

January 7, 2025 andrewpeter

Shan Masood, the captain of Pakistan, feels that his dismissal on the fourth and final day of the Cape Town Test match against South Africa was due to a ball-tracking error.

Umpire Nitin Menon declared Masood not out due to left-arm quick Kwena Maphaka’s bowling, but Hawkeye judged the ball was striking off stump, and the decision was overturned. Masood made 145 in Pakistan’s second innings. Follow bpexch for more cricket news.

Masood believed that the images Hawkeye vomited did not reflect the actual events of that delivery. “It’s simple,” Masood declared upon the game’s conclusion. An outswinger was used.

The ball that beat me jagged away quite a distance, if you can see it. It was displayed as an inswinger, and I was beaten on the outside edge. I must admit that I was perplexed by that.

Before that delivery, Masood had appeared largely unconcerned on the fourth morning after batting more or less aimlessly during his innings for more than six hours across two days.

Masood tried to defend it by squaring up and hitting him on the back pad, but Maphaka bowled from left-arm over to the left-handed Masood, landed it on a length, and got the ball to stay a touch low while straightening beyond the outside edge.

After reviewing, Hawkeye concluded that the ball hit Masood in line with the off-stump and that no discernible deviation from the stumps would have spared him. “It was evident to the unaided eye that it also felt out of line.

I thought the image was different. Hawkeye indicated that I was hit; however, I wasn’t hit. The interior of my leg shows that I was struck more on the outside than on the inside. Not an inswinger, that is. The umpire also believed that an outswinger had beaten me. Join bpexch for an amazing cricket update.

Masood didn’t try to hide his annoyance when the images appeared on the screen. He remained motionless for a long time, making a disapproving gesture.

He still had a look of annoyance and rage on his face when he turned to saunter away. He mimicked the ball’s movement by making another outward arcing motion with his hands as he approached the pavilion.

“It’s up to the administrators to see if that’s a fair decision, but I certainly felt that technology didn’t show the trajectory of that ball,” Masood stated. Follow bpexch for latest cricket news.

Before lunch, Pakistan was declared leg before wicket (LBW) off Maphaka’s bowling. As the ball slanted towards the leg stump, Saud Shakeel was smacked on the pad; Menon had also declared it not out this time. Hawkeye said it would have impacted the leg stump, but South Africa chose not to review it.