Nitin Menon and his light meter; Netizens splits with memes over umpire's 'bad light' decision
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- Published: November 29, 2021 18:26
New Delhi: Viewers have been able to witness a seat-edging test match series between India and New Zealand. There have been several ups and downs with Shreyas Iyer who has been the man to rescue India in both innings with his maiden ton on his debut innings followed by a half-century in the second innings whereas the off-spinner Aswin involving himself in a hot argument with on-field umpire Nitin Menon.
However, following a bad light on Day 5, Rachin Ravindra and Ajaz Patel’s solid defense helped India and New Zealand to settle for a draw. Analysing India’s playing strategy, many felt that the Test would end in two or two and a half sessions.
Ravindra Jadeja was the best bowler for India with figures of 4/40 while Aswin picked up three wickets. Aswin became India’s third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket surpassing Harbhajan Singh.
Meanwhile, Nitin Menon and his light meter got the attraction of millions of Indian cricket fans who were watching the match across the globe. Nitin was checking the light regularly and in the end, India had ten overs to deal with the situation, though Rachin Ravindra and Ajaz Patel played their best game to save the match.
Earlier, during Day 3, Aswin hit the headlines for having a heated argument with the on-field umpire Nitin Menon. The argument was joined in by the skipper Ajinkya Rahane as well and the episode looked quite heated up as Aswin was a bit intimidated.
However, netizens are taking on this opportunity to create memes and flooding social media with them:
Everytime Nitin Menon takes out Light meter.
Me:#INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/VGtoscOKRH— Positive Entropy (@EntropyPositive) November 29, 2021
Every time Nitin Menon takes out Light meter-
Indians:#INDvsNZ #INDvsNZTestSeries pic.twitter.com/djGEu8AbtA
— Abhishek (@Ingenuity402) November 29, 2021
Nitin Menon missing this treatment from Kohli pic.twitter.com/vTP2WAa9M3
— #We want aggressive Kohli back ? (@crickohli18) November 27, 2021
The bhaichara(banter) between Ashwin n Nitin menon has become too eye catching?the moment i thought the rift bet’n this two were icing that very moment they proved me wrong again?tho Ash was right as per rules! Low class umpiring by Mr. Menon #INDvNZ #Ashwin #TestCricket pic.twitter.com/sMXjc0fb9s
— ???????? (@iRoshan25) November 27, 2021
Nitin Menon in Test Cricket #NZvsIND pic.twitter.com/HEhLxVuZPo
— Ashutosh Srivastava (@ashutosh_sri8) November 29, 2021
Reason why I used to lose in 2007 cricket game…
NITIN MENON. pic.twitter.com/XuhIA0MS7o
— Tomy (@KaranKt17) November 29, 2021
Nitin menon after every over * pic.twitter.com/7o987t15yK
— Priyanshu Khandelwal ?? (@Priyanshuinnn) November 29, 2021
Nitin Menon trying to impress NZ Team #poor_umpiring #KanpurTest pic.twitter.com/5owQuGwE4z
— Cricket Page (@CricketPage3) November 29, 2021
Rahul Dravid to Nitin Menon at Kanpur Test Cricket #KanpurTest pic.twitter.com/l2S3tB9NTG
— Ashutosh Srivastava (@ashutosh_sri8) November 29, 2021
#INDvsNZTestSeries
Public to Nitin menon: pic.twitter.com/Qt39S5N2F0— Tony (@BeswaraR) November 29, 2021