Nasser Hussain slams match officials for declaring stumps early on Day 4: ‘If you could have a bit of common sense in there, but it’s a shame…’

Umpires for the fourth Test, Ahsan Raza, Kumar Dharmasena, and the groundsmen have come under the scanner on Sunday evening. As England needed 35 runs to win the Test match with four wickets in hand, the rain started to pour. However, after a while, the rain did stop, and according to the rules, the play could have been resumed at 11:12 PM IST. However, the umpires called it stumps at 11:00 PM; as a result, the game extended to the fifth day. Former cricketers Nasser Hussain and Dinesh Karthik were quite critical of the incident.

“Most importantly for viewers and fans who paid good money, remember Monday is a workday, and this sort of series deserves a finale in front of a big crowd at an iconic cricket ground, the Oval. That would have been some finale on Sunday, you may have just knocked off 35, or you may have seen Chris Woakes walk downstairs in a sling. I’m just wondering if they could have done anything, they had like 42-43 minutes to play with and within the laws and the playing regulations,” said Hussain on Sky Sports.

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