Masood felt that the images released by Hawkeye did not correspond to the reality of what happened during this delivery. “It’s simple,” Masood said after the match ended. “It was a striker. If you see the ball that I was beaten by, it went a long distance. I was beaten on the outside edge, and it was shown as a swing. J I was taken aback by this to be very honest.”
Masood, who had batted more or less haphazardly for more than six hours over two days for his innings, had looked largely calm on the fourth morning until this delivery. Maphaka, playing left-arm to left-hander Masood, landed it on a length and managed to keep the ball low while straightening beyond the outside edge as Masood tried to defend it, squared it and hitting him on the back cushion.
On review, Hawkeye judged that the ball had hit Masood in line with the stumps and showed no significant deviation from the stumps that would have saved it. “With the naked eye, you could also see that it looked like it was outside the line. I just felt like it was a different image. I didn’t get hit where Hawkeye showed he was touched I was touched more on the “.
Masood made no attempt to hide his displeasure when the images appeared on screen. He stood there for a long moment, gesticulating in disagreement. When he turned and stomped away, he still wore an expression of anger and frustration. As he walked toward the pavilion, he made an arc with his hands again to mimic the movement of the ball.
“It’s up to the administrators to see if it’s a fair decision or not, but I definitely felt like the technology wasn’t showing the trajectory of the ball,” Masood said.
Pakistan had finished on the right side of a lightweight decision before lunch, also off the bowling of Maphaka. Saud Shakeel was hit on the pad as the ball was heading towards leg stump, and on that occasion too, Menon had ruled it not out. South Africa did not review the situation, with Hawkeye indicating that she then hit leg stump.
