Sharma did not shout at the umpire, says Harbhajan

TIL Desk Sports/ Mumbai Indians off-spinner Harbhajan Singh today said his captain Rohit Sharma, who has been fined for showing dissent to the umpire, didn’t misbehave with the official and was only trying to clarify rules. Sharma was at the crease when Mumbai needed 17 off the last over to win against Rising Pune Supergiant.

After losing Hardik Pandya in the first ball, Sharma hit a six in the second but Jaydev Unadkat pushed the third delivery wide after seeing Sharma shuffle across the stumps. Realising that the ball was veering away from the guideline for wide deliveries, Sharma left it alone. However, umpire S Ravi didn’t call it a wide.

Disappointed with the decision, Sharma walked up to the umpire and protested even as the square-leg umpire A Nand Kishore intervened. He was fined 50 per cent of his match fee after the incident. “The ball was too far outside, to be honest, but I don’t really know whether it was wide or not,” Harbhajan told reporters at the post match conference.