NEW DELHI: A lot of noise was made when the official broadcaster of India's tour of Sri Lanka posted a video on their YouTube channel which raised doubts over the winner of the toss in the one-off T20I between the two teams in Colombo on Wednesday.
In the video, India captain
Virat Kohli makes the call for heads but the match referee
Andy Pycroft's voice isn't audible enough to confirm whether he said heads or tails but the presenter
Murali Kartik made it clear that it was indeed India who won the toss and straightway headed over to the Kohli to ask his decision. But amidst that, Pycroft looks confused which led to speculations that there might have been a miscommunication between the duo.
Eventually, reports emerged that the Sri Lanka cricket board was mulling to lodge a complaint regarding the incident.
However, on Friday, putting to rest all the confusion, the Lankan board sent a tweet saying, "Match Referee Andy PYCROFT called it correctly - "Heads India".
The tweet was accompanied by a video clip of the toss and the part where Pycroft makes the call has been enhanced. However, despite the enhanced audio clip, it is still not clear whether the Zimbabwean said heads or tails.
After winning the toss, India decided to bowl first with Sri Lanka captain
Upul Tharanga also saying he would have done the same had the coin rolled in his team's favour. India eventually went on the win the match by seven wickets and thus completed a historic 9-0 sweep of the home team across the three formats.
Here's the original video:-