Watch: Virat Kohli protests to umpire as Henry Nicholls takes late DRS call in 2nd ODI

India and New Zealand are currently battling it out in the second ODI of the 3 match series here in Auckland. After having lost the first ODI after posting a huge score of 347, the second ODI has turned out into a do or die contest. This is not new territory for India as they have won the last 2 ODI series back from being 1-0 down.

Controversy in the middle!
The Blackcaps openers were steadily building up a big partnership with both Guptill and Henry Nicholls looking good. In the 17th over bowled by Chahal, Nicholls was looking to sweep a fairly short of a length delivery and missed it. A big appeal followed and umpire Bruce Oxenford raised his finger.

Henry Nicholls wanted to take matters to the third umpire and had a consultation with his partner at the other end. With the clock ticking just past the 15 second mark, Nicholls suddenly signalled for DRS and Oxenford obliged and asked for the third umpire to have a look. Virat Kohli who had seen the timer on the big screen went and expressed his displeasure with the decision. He felt the umpire should have sent the batsman on his way and shouldn’t have asked for the TV umpire to intervene. Watch the incident in the clip below.

That was not all, even after the decision went in India’s favour and the batsman walked halfway through to pavilion, Virat was seen talking with the umpire about the timer and the unfair advantage that the batsman was gaining.

Not in umpire’s good books!
Off late Virat Kohli has not been in the umpire’s good books at all. In the first ODI Virat and his men were fined 80% of match fees for maintaining slow over rate. They were well off the mark being 4 overs late. They were also fined 40% after the 4th T20I for a similar offence. Now this confrontation may end up causing another disciplinary action by the match referee.

India are currently struggling big time to chase a total of 274 with none other than Iyer putting up a decent score. Earlier New Zealand rode on half centuries from Guptill and Taylor to reach 274 in stipulated 50 overs.