The drama surrounding Virat Kohli’s dismissal continues, as Mohammad Kaif brings up MS Dhoni’s IPL moment

Former cricket players’ thoughts are still flooding in about Virat Kohli’s high full toss dismissal against the Kolkata Knight Riders during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s one-run defeat on Sunday.

Mohammad Kaif, a former player for India, has recently entered the discussion and provided an intriguing perspective.

Kaif said that the ball that Kohli was out of on Sunday was a “clear unplayable beamer” in a post on the social networking site X.

In addition to criticising Kohli’s wicket, he raised concerns about the tournament’s umpiring standards by pointing out that in one of the matches, a wide was called against MS Dhoni.

“A ball that went beneath Dhoni’s bat is ruled wide after a clear, unplayable beamer removes Kohli from the game. Even with cameras, replays, and technology, blunders like this are still made, Kaif wrote on X.

“Bad officiating,” Kaif continued.

Former Indian cricket great Navjot Singh Sidhu had earlier backed Kohli and referred to the ruling as “legalising beamers.”.

“Observe where he is positioned at the time of impact; when a bowler bowls a beamer, they apologize. This regulation has to be changed since the point of contact with the bat is 1.5 feet over the line. Sidhu noted during his game commentary on Star Sports, “That decision changed the whole game.”

Irfan Pathan, a former all-rounder for India, believed that Kohli was appropriately dismissed and that the ball was delivered lawfully.

The current regulation stipulates that the ball must pass the stepping crease at waist height in order for a delivery to be deemed a no ball.

The moment at which Kohli touched the ball was irrelevant since he was standing outside the crease. Where the ball would have landed up if Kohli had been standing straight at the stepping crease was what mattered.

The ball would have passed at the popping crease at 0.92 meters according to the replays that were shown on television using the new ball tracking technology, while Kohli’s upright waist was recorded at 1.04 meters.

The great RCB hitter was thus ruled out when the ball was deemed to have been delivered legally.