Champions Trophy: India’s Protest forces Jury to Look For Escape Route
India lost to Australia in the champions trophy in a penalty shootout in London but the news that is catching more eyes is the protest that team India did. The tournament jury spent an hour and a half to find a way out to India’s protest over a shoot-out infringement against Australia.
India filed an appeal against the video umpire’s decision to let Australia re-take their second attempt in the shoot-out it looked like the tournament jury was in quite a problem and confused situation.
India had complained that Daniel Beale’s shootout attempt was allowed to go on for more than 14 seconds and the obstruction that was cited took place outside the eight-second limit for such attempts.
the score was 1-0 at that time and after more than an hour of the conclusion of the match the jury said that the penalty was re given because he ball had rolled under Indian goalkeeper’s pad for a couple of seconds.
And this was not all the tournament directors to suppress this controversies staged the medal presentation in the media interview room rather than heading in the ground in front of the fans.
“The umpires have failed,” said Narender Batra, president of Hockey India, who vehemently protested from the VIP galleries. “Is this the quality of umpires you post in the final of the Champions Trophy?” asked Batra.
“The shootout attempt went on for over 14 seconds, and then it was re-taken. Just to cover up their shortcomings, they are now pointing out at a different incident,” he said.
“If the goalkeeper had made an infringement, then a penalty stroke should have been awarded,” Batra emphasised.
Indian coach Roelant Oltmans said it was “an unusual end to the tournament”.
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