Blue Jays manager John Schneider was not happy with a first-inning call on Friday night. And everyone at home heard him.
"How the f— are you gonna call that?" Schneider asked. It's a common protest, with players and managers wanting at least for the standard appeal process to the base umpire down the line.
A stunned Patidar then refused to leave the field and gestured to the on-field umpires where the ball had pitched. The MP skipper then had a word with the square-leg umpire and the third umpire ...
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The on-field umpires, Richard Illingworth and Vineet Kulkarni, expressed their disapproval and instructed Pollard to cease ...