Delhi: The last Super-4 match of Asia Cup 2025 saw a strong fight between India and Sri Lanka. India gave Sri Lanka a target of 203 runs to win, in response, Pathum Nisanka and Kusal Perera’s bang batting made the match exciting. However, the match was tie and India won the match in the super over and won the match. Meanwhile, there was an incident in Sri Lanka’s innings, which surprised the players and the audience. Actually, despite the batsman hit a six, the team was not given 6 runs.

Controversy in sixth over

This peculiar incident took place in the sixth over of Sri Lanka’s innings. Varun Chakraborty was bowling. On his third ball, as soon as he was taking a run-up, umpire Ijatullah Safi indicated a dead ball just before throwing the ball. However, Varun did not pay attention to the signal and put the ball. Pathum Nisanka played a strong shot on this ball and the ball went out of the boundary on the long-on-on Akshar Patel’s hand. That is, it was a six. However, immediately after the umpire called it a dead ball.

Six invalid due to dead ball

According to the rules, neither wickets nor runs are added on the dead ball. In such a situation, Nisanka’s six did not even be valid and Sri Lanka suffered a loss of 6 runs. Both the players and the audience were surprised to see this decision.

Abhishek Sharma’s fault became reason

The biggest question was why the umpire indicated a dead ball? Actually, Indian player Abhishek Sharma became the reason for this. At that time, he was trying to go out of the field, but could not cross the boundary completely.

According to cricket rules, if a player leaves the field, he should be completely out of the field, until he goes out completely, during that time the ball can be considered dead, under this rule, the umpire called the ball dead and Sri Lanka got 6 runs invalid.