Ben Stokes calls for change after England dudded by dodgy moment in India cricket Test

England captain Ben Stokes has blasted the cricket rules around the umpire's call after a brutal DRS decision left Zak Crawley marching back to the pavilion against India during the third Test. England looked to be cruising in their first innings of the Test in Rajkot at 3-224.

However, a sudden collapse saw India take a big first innings lead before posting 4-430. Rohit Sharma declared and sent England back in. And Ravi Jadeja took another five-wicket haul as England lost by 434 runs to secure India's biggest ever win against an opponent.

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However, Stokes was left fuming amid England's capitulation when Crawley was given out LBW on a tight DRS call. The umpire gave Crawley out from a darting Jasprit Bumrah delivery that crashed into the batter's pads.

The opener sent it upstairs, feeling the review would show the ball bouncing over leg-stump. However, Crawley was left fuming when the umpire's call stood because the decision claimed a portion of the ball was clipping the bails. However, it was hard to confirm on the image to whether the ball was hitting the bails.

Crawley was visibly frustrated walking off the field, before England collapsed for 122. England will now head into the fourth Test in Mumbai needing a victory to keep the Test series alive. However, Stokes was left fuming after the loss and took aim at the DRS decision.

Stokes claimed the projection of the ball didn't appear right and that the ball wasn't hitting the stumps on the images they viewed. “We just wanted some clarity around Zak’s DRS when the images came back,” Stokes said on TalkSPORT.

“The ball is quite clearly missing the stump on the replay. So when it gets given umpire’s call and the ball’s not actually hitting the stumps, we were a bit bemused. We just wanted some clarity from Hawk-Eye. It came back saying the numbers were saying that it was hitting the stumps but it was the projection that was wrong. I don’t know what that means. Something’s gone wrong."

Ben Stokes calls for change of DRS rule

Stokes stopped short of arguing the DRS call impacted the outcome of the match, considering the team lost by 434 runs, but felt the continuous confusion around video review system is baffling to everyone involved in the game. The England captain called for the 'umpire's call' element of the review system to be scrapped

“You just want something that is consistent, so when the people that use the system are saying something that has gone wrong, whatever it is, who’s to say it’s not gone wrong at another time that could prove pivotal," he added. “Umpire’s call, personally I think we should just get rid of it.

"If it’s hitting the stumps, it’s hitting the stumps, then it’s a level playing field. It’s not me blaming that on what’s happened here, like I didn’t last week. It’s just … what’s going on?”

England suffer record-breaking loss to India

India's enormous victory eclipsed their previous biggest total, when they defeated New Zealand by 372 runs in Mumbai in 2021. England have only lost by a bigger margin once, against Australia by 562 runs in a timeless Test in 1934 in which Bill Ponsford made 266. England remarkably hold the biggest Test victory of all time having defeated Australia on a 'sticky dog' in 1928, the first Test to be played at Brisbane, also Sir Donald Bradman's debut, in a 675 run win.

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