Big 'scandal' in India-Sri Lanka series, this mistake of the match referee took away the victory from Team India!

A new controversy has emerged in the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka. According to media reports, ICC officials in Sri Lanka have made such a mistake which has caused loss to Team India. Know what is the whole matter?

Was there cheating with Team India? (PC-PTI)

The ODI series between India and Sri Lanka has been amazing so far. Sri Lanka defeated Team India in the second ODI on Sunday and the first ODI match ended in a tie. But now a big scam has come to light regarding this ODI series. According to media reports, if the third ODI match between India and Sri Lanka is tied, then a super over will be conducted in it. Now the question is why a super over was not conducted after the first ODI match was tied? An official of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board has given a shocking statement. In which he said that there should have been a super over in the first ODI match as well but it did not happen.

What happened in the first ODI?

In the first ODI match between India and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka batted first and scored 230 runs. In reply, Team India could also score only 230 runs and the match was tied. The big thing is that according to ICC rules, after this match was tied, a super over should have been played but ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle did not do so. Not only this, questions are also raised on the field umpire and third-fourth umpire. The question is, did these officials also not know about the rule of super over in ODI?

ICC's rule when an ODI match is tied

What is the ICC rule if the match is tied in ODI?

According to ICC rules, if both teams score the same score then there should be a super over. If the super over is also tied then there should be super overs until a winner is found. It is clearly written in the ICC rules that even if the ODI match is tied, there should be a super over but this did not happen in Colombo. Due to which Team India has suffered a loss. Team India could have won the first T20 in the super over and if this had happened then today it would not have been trailing 0-1 in the series. Now it will be interesting to see what answer ICC will give to this big mistake.