'Not a great umpiring decision' - SRH player Heinrich Klassen lashes out at crowd, umpire during clash against LSG in IPL 2023

Heinrich Klassen, No Ball DRS, Unruly behavior from the crowd (Image Credit: Twitter/IPL)

Sunrisers Hyderabad player, Heinrich Klassen has lashed out at the umpiring and unruly behavior from the crowd. Apparently, on the fourth ball of the penultimate over of the SRH innings, Avesh Khan bowled a high full-toss. Klassen hit it for a four but he reviewed for the no-ball. Despite the ball tracker showing the ball going over the waist height, the third umpire didn't change the on-field decision.

After this, the Hyderabad crowd started throwing nuts and bolts towards the LSG dugout. That led to the game being stopped for a while. The on-field umpires got involved and had to tone down the crowd. Meanwhile, the home team, Sunrisers finished 182/6 with Klassen scoring 47 off 29 balls while Abdul Samad got 37 off 25 balls. Meanwhile, during the mid-innings break, the South Africa international wasn't happy about how things turned out.

Crowd hooliganism broke our momentum: Heinrich Klassen

In the interaction with the broadcasters, the right-hander said that the incident happened in the second last over broke the team's momentum

“Disappointed with the crowd. That's not what you want at the venue. Very disappointed (because) that broke our momentum. Not a great umpiring decision being made there, but it's part of the game,” Klaasen said.

“The wicket changed quickly in the middle. There was some spin and decent amount of bounce, there were a few rippers (by Krunal - Markram and Phillips' wicket.) That broke the moment, it was difficult to play the harder length balls. Need to bowl length and slower ones into the wicket, can't be too full. It's not a bad wicket, but it's a bit slow,” Klaasen said.

Talking about the game, the Blue Brigade, LSG won the game by six wickets. Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, and Nicholas Pooran took the team over the line with four balls left in the game. With this, they have kept themselves alive for the playoffs race.