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Kamindu's LBW reprieve comes down to "Umpire's Call"

Sports Central by DRM's fast-starting Rawalpindi clip shows why a ball projected to hit the wickets still leaves the batter not out.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 70,507 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (1,674).

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The projected path hits the wickets, but that is not enough to send Kamindu Mendis back. In Sports Central by DRM's short match clip, Pakistan's review reaches a different sticking point: where the ball struck his pads.

Abbas appeals, the on-field umpire says no, and Pakistan's players confer before asking for a review. Ball-tracking shows the delivery pitching outside off stump and going on to hit the wickets. But the impact is marked "Umpire's Call", so the original not-out decision stands.

That distinction matters. An LBW review checks more than whether the ball would hit the stumps. Here, the impact falls within the technology's umpire's-call margin rather than delivering a clear-cut finding that overturns the on-field judgment. Kamindu survives, and Pakistan's fielders react with disappointment.

The clip has drawn about 60,000 views in 17 hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts. One viewer asks why it is not out, a question the review sequence itself helps answer.

The clips channel's wider coverage of the opening Pakistan-Sri Lanka Test at Rawalpindi is also drawing unusually strong viewing: its live upload, full-day highlights and separate session packages are all running ahead of their usual starts for their respective formats. This short isolates the day's fine-margin decision, with the decisive explanation coming from the TV umpire: "Original decision is not out. Landing outside off, impact umpire's call and wickets hitting."

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The facts

Channel: Sports Central by DRM
Subscribers: 6,820,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 6,788,055
Channel views, pace per day: 910,893 (on a normal day: 2,110,059)
Video published: November 10, 2026
Video views so far: 60,120 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 70,507

The numbers

The review clip is running well ahead of Sports Central by DRM's usual Shorts start. Its longer Test coverage is also ahead of the channel's usual viewing for those formats.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,674

this video

70,507

subscribers

6,820,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,152,199,437

views per day

910,893