{"id":234505,"date":"2025-07-03T10:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:51:13","slug":"umpiring-decisions-cost-england-dear-bemoans-grumpy-chris-woakes-after-bowler-had-two-agonising-calls-turned-down-on-day-one-of-second-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234505\/","title":{"rendered":"Umpiring decisions cost England dear, bemoans grumpy Chris Woakes &#8211; after bowler had two agonising calls turned down on day one of second Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>India posted 310-5 on day one of the second Test against England at Edgbaston<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Chris Woakes had two early LBW appeals turned down by umpire Sharfuddoula\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>England reviewed the decisions but the ball clipped the stumps on umpire&#8217;s call\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-178\/aadam-patel.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AADAM PATEL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:43 EDT, 2 July 2025   |  Updated:  17:43 EDT, 2 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Chris Woakes insisted things could have been very different for England had umpiring decisions gone their way on a see-saw first day of the second Test against <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/india-cricket\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b27e1250-578c-11f0-8ec1-312e990ef477\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The tourists will resume today on 310 for five with Shubman Gill unbeaten on 114.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After England won the toss and chose to bowl, Woakes had two appeals in the morning session turned down by umpire Sharfuddoula.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Captain <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/ben-stokes\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b28209f0-578c-11f0-8ec1-312e990ef477\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Stokes<\/a> reviewed both decisions \u2014 and on both occasions the ball was shown to be clipping the stumps on umpire\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018We could easily have had them 30 for three,\u2019 said Woakes, who was visibly angry after the second unsuccessful review.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018You could say that (I was cursing Sharfuddoula). It was a pretty frustrating morning. Emotions were running high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s more the fact that had those decisions gone our way, the day looks completely different. There\u2019s probably been a few occasions where I\u2019ve been grumpier but that was right up there.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9af64c741ea1ea71\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/99948985-0-image-a-17_1751492131146.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Chris Woakes bemoaned umpiring calls that didn't go England's way in the 2nd Test vs India\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Chris Woakes bemoaned umpiring calls that didn&#8217;t go England&#8217;s way in the 2nd Test vs India<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-225a6d8fc9d5f7f2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/99948963-0-image-a-18_1751492167933.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Woakes had two narrow calls turned down by\u00a0umpire Sharfuddoula in the morning session - and on both occasions the ball was shown to be clipping the stumps on umpire\u2019s call\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Woakes had two narrow calls turned down by\u00a0umpire Sharfuddoula in the morning session &#8211; and on both occasions the ball was shown to be clipping the stumps on umpire\u2019s call<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d13319e4bea728a6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/99948975-0-image-a-19_1751492204206.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Woakes was visibly angry on the pitch and he claimed the day could have been very different\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Woakes was visibly angry on the pitch and he claimed the day could have been very different<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the evening session, Shoaib Bashir also had an appeal turned down when he struck Ravindra Jadeja on the pads. England decided against reviewing but again, replays showed the ball hitting the stumps on umpire\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018A great day for us would have been them on 300 for seven,\u2019 added Woakes. \u2018Gill played very well. It was a big hundred for his team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Umpiring decisions cost England dear, bemoans grumpy Chris Woakes &#8211; after bowler had two agonising calls turned down on day one of second Test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India posted 310-5 on day one of the second Test against England at Edgbaston Chris Woakes had two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[43331,1406,92,393,7504,730,43158,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-ben-stokes","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-england-cricket","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-india-cricket","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788924618812722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}