Rohit Sharma Expresses Regret to Confused Siraj Following DRS Blunder: 'Let's Not Watch the Replay'

Day 2 of the first Test between India and Bangladesh in Chennai was full of action. India were bowled out for 376, with Hasan Mahmud taking another five-wicket-haul and Taskin Ahmed contributing with three wickets. Akash Deep then had Bangladesh reeling at 26/3 by lunch. With 7 wickets falling in just 120 minutes, the possibility of a three-day Test finish loomed large. It's clear that India is the dominant force in this match, with Bangladesh struggling to keep up.

In the second innings thus far, everything went India's way – from their pacers looking threatening to both Akash and Jasprit Bumrah getting into the wicket column quickly. The one little blemish, if one has to pinpoint, for India, however, was a DRS error committed by captain Rohit Sharma against Bangladesh opener Zakir Hasan. Bowling the fourth over, Mohammed Siraj had the left-hander stone dead, but after the on-field umpire turned down the appeal, Rohit ignored Siraj's persistence to go for the review and instead agreed with what wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant had to say.

The ball rapped Hasan on the pads, beaten by pace, as he was looking to work it on the leg-side. "Upar hai? Nahi? Nikal raha hai," Rohit was caught hearing on the stump mic, meaning "Is it going above? No? Drifting down leg." Rohit took Pant's advice, but as the replay soon showed, Pant's assessment was wrong. Three reds it was. Not that the decision hurt India since Akash soon castled Hasan for 4, but bowling with the intensity that he was, Siraj, like any pacer, would have loved to be among the wickets.

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No soon did the replay appear on the giant screen, Siraj looked all perplexed, as Rohit soon sported a sheepish smile on his face and waved his arms as Siraj as a way to apologise, with Pant emulating the gesture. Siraj, however, was clearly baffled. A little more courage and the right-arm quick could have been rewarded for bowling with pace, accuracy and intensity in the hot and sapping Chennai weather.

Pant was standing significantly outside off stump, so although the wicketkeeper usually is in a good position to pass on his wisdom to the captain, there's no way Pant could have gotten it 100 percent right. The confusion was aptly summed up by Ravi Shastri on air, who made it clear it'll benefit the team if India can find a way to make Siraj escape watching the video. "Don't show Siraj the replay. He won't be a happy chappy that's for sure," the former India coach said in his evergreen booming voice.

"If you see from where Siraj has delivered, it's very close to the stumps. So I think it's at least a 50-50 call. He gets close to the stumps at the time of delivery so the chances of leg before are much more when he bowls from angle as compared to center of the crease or wide of the crease. You really need to get the ball to swing in from the off stump."