Twitter Reaction: Tillakaratne Dilshan stunned with a wrong LBW decision

Defending champions Sri Lanka had a very bad start to their contest after the lost their vital batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan cheaply due to an umpiring error. West Indies won the toss and went in to bowl first at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in the 21st match of the Super 10 stage.

The match is crucial from both team’s point of view; West Indies have a great chance to  put their one foot on the semi-final spot while Sri Lanka can strengthen their chances for the same purpose.

Lankan openers Dinesh Chandimal and Tillakaratne Dilshan came out to open the innings and set their team to a positive start, mustering 20 runs off the couple of overs by Andre Russell and Sulieman Benn. But, Darren Sammy, who was in a shuffling mood, brought in all-rounder Carlos Braithwaite. The giant right arm medium pacer did not take long to bring the breakthrough.

Braithwaite started off with a fuller delivery which managed o beat Dilshan and hit him straight on the pads. The ball came in angling into the pads. Dilshan aims to dispatch the ball on the leg side but misses it completely. The giant man appealed with full zest and the umpire agreed with him, shocking veteran Dilshan.

The ball looked to be going on the leg-side at first glance but the umpire, after taking some time, eventually the umpire gave him out much to the delight of the West Indians. There were doubts over the decision and eventually the TV replays showed that the ball was missing the ball by a huge margin.

I got this many decisions wrong… pic.twitter.com/N5vSHlKugi

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) March 20, 2016

It's time to use DRS on t-20 as well @ICC

— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) March 20, 2016

Come on umps! It's a WC and u have to be better than this. That would hit 5th stump if they had one…???

— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay) March 20, 2016

I'm not one to rant about umpiring. But that's a rank bad decision. Even schoolyard umpires won't give that out with that angle.

— Rukmankan (@rukmankan) March 20, 2016

What a ridiculous mistake from the umpire robbed us off a great dilshan innings. No need for replays to know that was missing #WIVSL

— Arun Arokianathan (@aroarun) March 20, 2016

Horrible decision.

— SL Cricket Blog (@SLCricketBlog) March 20, 2016

Horrid decision by the umpire… @ICC Time for #DRS in T20's too…

— Seductv (@Seductv) March 20, 2016

Not the first time Johan Cloete has given a shocker, he was awful in SA vs ENG series #bbccricket

— Si Lomas (@SLomasSCFC1883) March 20, 2016

That is a shocking Dilshan decission. I could see that in real time that that Was missing by a country mile!! #bbccricket

— Chris Avery (@GetChangedZA) March 20, 2016

#bbccricket that is a stinker of a decision by the umpire, deserves to be dropped after that.

— Stuart Mitchell (@Stumitchell87) March 20, 2016

Somewhere Billy Bowden is trying to write a sympathetic text to Johan Cloete. But he's doing it on his TV remote control.

— George Dobell (@GeorgeDobell1) March 20, 2016

Wrong decisions.. Run outs.. Seems like luck is not with #SL today.. And then there're #Ind fans supporting #WI at Bangalore.. #SLvWI #WT20

— Rukhshan Hameem (@rukhshan) March 20, 2016

Umpire Johan Cloete calls that a wide, he gave Dilshan out off a similar line #Howler

— Daniel Alexander (@daniel86cricket) March 20, 2016

J.D.Cloete Soouth African Umpire ruining the game of Cricket.

— ROHAN DE SILVA (@ROHAN035) March 20, 2016

Umpires like Johan Cloete, should be banned, wrecking cricket matches, he is blind. Should be reviewed by icc. Action required by icc

— Roopesh Harripershad (@Harripershad) March 20, 2016

Even a normal person could see that would miss even 5 stumps if you had them. horrible decision by #umpire cloete @OfficialCSA #SriLanka

— Ricky Simms (@ricky_simms) March 20, 2016