DHAKA: Three of decisions given by umpires in the Thursday’s quarter-final match between Bangladesh and India in the ICC Cricket World Cup are being protested local and internationally terming those “controversial and wrong”.

Cricket experts protested the ‘biased’ attitude of umpires saying that Bangladesh as if played the game against ICC and umpires, not India. 

The decisions from umpire Ian Gould during of the match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground shocked cricket fans across the country and elsewhere in the world.

The decisions given by English umpire Ian Gould, Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar and English TV umpire Steve Davis were protested at Teacher-Student Center of Dhaka University in afternoon.

Ian Gould no-balled Rubel Hossain for a seemingly waist-high full toss in the 40th over of the match which hurt millions of cricket fans worldwide, made many cricket experts astonished.

Apart from that, umpire dismissed Mashrafe Mortaza’s ‘logical’ appeal for an LBW against Suresh Raina.

And yet another umpiring decision that may have gone against Bangladesh was the dismissal of the in-form batsman Mahmudullah on the boundary ropes by Shikhar Dhawan.

According to espncricinfo.com, India are now headed to play the winner of the match between Australia and Pakistan after beating Bangladesh by 109 runs. 

That the eventual margin of victory was huge should not take anything away from the significance of the umpiring blunder.

India had only just started to look threatening with 41 runs in 4.3 overs of the batting Powerplay when Rohit hit a full toss straight down deep midwicket's throat. This was the time when for a split second Bangladesh thought they could work at wresting back the control, but to their horror they saw square-leg umpire Aleem Dar had called a no-ball.

Replays showed Rohit had met the ball waist-high well in front of his normal stance, and the ball was on its way down. 

Not only was it not a no-ball, it was inconsistent that the on-field umpire made such a hurried call when extreme caution has been the norm. 

Nine out of 10 times in modern cricket, Rohit would have been given out after replays; this just happened to be that other occasion.

BDST: 2057 HRS, MAR 19, 2015