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Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant was involved in an argument with the on-field umpire over a DRS call during the IPL 2024 game against Lucknow Super Giants on Friday. The incident happened after an apparent confusion over Pant’s decision to take a review. During the 4th over of the LSG innings, Ishant Sharma bowled a delivery down the leg side against Devdutt Padikkal. The umpire signalled for a wide but Pant quickly went for a review. Replay showed that it was a wide but Pant was not happy and commentators thought he was insisting that he did not ask for a review.

Rishabh Pant was clearly at the wrong there. He indeed asked for a review or at least gestured that way. Umpire will obviously act accordingly. Rishabh Pant is so immature. He doesn’t deserve to be a captain. #IPL2024 #LSGvsDC #DCvsLSG #LSGvDC #DCvLSG

— Rishabh Sharma (@rishsharma16) April 12, 2024

There was a long conversation between the umpire and Pant but various replays shown by the official broadcaster made it clear that Pant had indeed signalled for a review.

Rishabh Pant Took DRS by Mistake#LSGvDC #RishabhPant #DCvsLSG #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/9PjUoF1WEC

— Tanay (@tanay_chawda1) April 12, 2024

Legendary India batter Sunil Gavaskar felt that it was a possibility that Pant was making that gesture to ask a teammate for advice but the umpire thought that it was an official review.

However, Pommie Mbangwa and Deep Dasgupta said that Pant was actually not happy with the umpire not checking the snickometer during the review as the DC skipper believed that the umpire should have checked for an edge in order to decide whether it was a wide or not.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Playing XIs –

Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (wk/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Arshad Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur.

Substitutes: Gowtham, Hooda, Siddharth, Mishra and Henry.

Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (wk/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed.

Substitutes: Richardson, Abishek Porel, Kushagra, Sumit and Dubey.